Education is one of the major aspirations that the individual seeks, as it is a turning point in building his professional project, in addition to the state that has made education one of its major priorities to achieve development, and if we want to realize this value that education represents for the individual, the family and society as a whole, we must notice how the family becomes, during exam times, to serve one project, which is the success of the student, while for the state, the amount of financial spending, allocations and resources from the state budget available to the education sector are sufficient to answer the extent of the importance of this value. However, this privilege that education has monopolized has been facing many obstacles, especially in recent years, as it has been increasing more and more from one year to the next, the most prominent of which is the problem or phenomenon of school dropout, and the resulting great educational waste, the consequences of which are borne by the state budget and the student’s family with bitterness and great regret, a phenomenon that observers believe has been caused and exacerbated by multiple and intertwined factors, including the population problem that Algerian society is facing, especially in recent years. The population problem resulting from the rapid and unplanned increase in the population has a great impact on the size of the educational phenomenon, because adopting the principle of quantity and neglecting quality, with overcrowding of classrooms to meet the increasing demands for education, in addition to the social problems of the Algerian family, which also have the population problem as one of its causes, has forced some students to drop out of school and work to meet the social and economic requirements of the family, and other problems of the population crisis and the unplanned demographic transformation have constituted a factor that has an impact on the spread of the phenomenon of school dropout, and have exacerbated its severity. Through this research paper, we sought to highlight the impact that the population problem that Algeria suffers from plays in the exacerbation and spread of the phenomenon of school dropout.

school dropout, students, education.