On Wednesday The Secretary-General of the Higher Population Council, Dr. Issa Al-Masarweh, delivered a lecture at the Royal Jordanian National Defense College by titled "Population Policy in Jordan and Its Relationship to Jordanian National Security." The lecture was delivered to scholars in the 22nd National Defense Course and the 8th Countering Extremism and Terrorism Program, in the presence of the Chairman and members of the directing staff.

Al-Masarweh said, "Demographic changes have significant, comprehensive, and general repercussions on all national sectors and needs, and their effects may continue for many decades to come. Therefore, these changes must receive special attention, given their close connection to national security in its various dimensions: economic, environmental, political, military, security, societal, and familial."

He pointed out that migration changes demographic policies in terms of population growth trends, population structure and age, population distribution, population density, and urbanization. Migrants may transform relatively homogeneous societies into multiethnic and multicultural societies, and countries receiving migrants may need to maintain social stability and cohesion in the face of pluralism

He emphasized that rapid population growth and a young age structure require the state to allocate significant resources to meet basic human needs for security, housing, food, energy, education, health, and work. Population growth also places pressure on the natural environment and its various resources