Question

Describe the distribution of population in india. Explain why the population is distributed like this?

Answer 1

The current population of India contributes to 17% of the global population. Also, all these people are unevenly distributed across 3.28 million square kilometers of our geographical area.

According to the 2001 Census, Uttar Pradesh is the highest populated state in India with a total number of 166 million people. While on the other hand, states like Sikkim and Lakshadweep have the lowest population of 0.5 million in Sikkim and only 60000 people in the island state of Lakshadweep.

Furthermore, about half of the country’s population is concentrated around five major states- Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. Though Rajasthan is the largest state in size, its population contributes to only 5.5% of the total population of India.

Answer 2

|| Distribution of Population ||

• The way in which people are spread across the earth's surface is known as the pattern of population distribution.

• More than 90 per cent of the world's population lives in about 30 per cent of the land surface.

• The distribution of population in the world is extremely uneven.

• The crowded areas are South and South-east Asia, Europe and north-eastern North America.

• Very few people live in high altitude areas, tropical deserts, high mountains and areas of equatorial forests.

• Almost 75% of the world's people live in Asia and Africa.

• 60% of the world's people stay in just 10 countries. All of them have more than a 100 million people.

• China followed by India are the two most populous countries.