经济可持续发展是我国现代化建设的发展战略。我国民族地区资源丰富,但生态环境脆弱,特别是人口增长过快,与东部沿海地区的差距日益拉大,对经济持续发展极为不利。本文从人口与经济可持续发展的相互关系出发,分析了民族地区人口发展现状及其对经济可持续发展的影响,提出了民族地区要实现经济可持续发展,在人口、经济、社会、资源、环境交叉影响的几个方面必须认真协调解决的一些重要问题及对策。 Economic sustainable development is the development strategy of our country’s modernization. Our ethnic minority areas are rich in resources, but their ecological environment is fragile. In particular, the rapid population growth has widened the gap with the eastern coastal areas and is extremely unfavorable to the sustained economic development. Based on the relationship between population and sustainable development of economy, this paper analyzes the current situation of population development and its impact on the sustainable development of economy in ethnic minority areas. It is proposed that the sustainable development of economy should be realized in the minority areas, and the population, economy, society, resources, Several aspects of cross-cutting environmental impact must be carefully coordinated and solved some important issues and countermeasures.