1. Education can reduce population and is an important means to control population growth.

A certain population is necessary for economic and social development, but when the population exceeds a certain limit, it will not only promote economic and social development, but also bring certain or even huge negative effects. Education can control population growth and reduce population by improving people's educational level, establishing a correct concept of fertility and conveying the relevant national population policies to the society.

2. Education is an important means to improve the quality of population.

Population quality includes physical quality, scientific and cultural quality and ideological and moral quality. Education is an important means to improve the quality of a country's citizens.

3. Education can improve the population structure, adjust the talent structure and rationalize the flow.

Rationalization of population structure means that population structure is beneficial to social production and natural balance of population. The functions of education in promoting the rationalization of population structure are as follows: education helps to balance the sex ratio of the population; Education can change the age structure of social population; Education can change the industry and occupation structure of the population; Education can adjust the regional structure of population.