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1.      Need

Needs are the basic necessity, goods and services which are essential in life.

For example: food, shelter and clothing, a human being cannot live without food, water or shelter.

2.      Want

A want is a good or a service which people wish to have, these are not essential for living but are human desires, and these wants are always unlimited.

For example: a new phone, a car, a watch. Human beings can live without these wants but they wish to have it.

3.      Economic problem

Human beings have unlimited wants but the resources to produce these wants (goods and services) are limited. Hence this creates a shortage.

For example: a government would always want to provide good houses and cars to all its people but it is extremely difficult to arrange for resources to produce cars for all the population.

4.      Scarcity

Lack of resources to fulfill population’s needs and want

For example: when the agricultural resources are not enough to provide food to everyone in the country.