Distinguish between population growth and population change.
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Answer:
Three differences between Population Growth and Population Change:
Population Growth:
(a) Population growth is the difference between birth rate and death rate plus migration per year.
(b) It is expressed in percentage.
(c) Growth rate was 2.14% per year as per census 1991. It has declined to 1.93% per year in 2001.
(d) Growth of population refers to the change in the number of inhabitants of a country/territory during a specific period of time, say during the last ten years.
Population Change:
(a) Population change is the number of people added to the total population in a year.
(b) It is expressed in the addition of number of people.
(c) Population was 84.64 crore in 1991. It increased to 102.87 crore in 2001, an addition of 18.2 crore in a decade.
(d) Population change is about changes in population composition; like age structure, sex ratio, literacy rate, occupational structure, etc.
Answer:
population growth
Explanation:
Population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population. ...
population change
Population change, defined generally, is the difference in the size of a population between the end and the beginning of a given time period (usually one year). ... Population change has two components: natural population change (the number of live births minus the number of deaths);