Question

What are the effect of population increase in India?

Answer 1

1.increasing pollution
2.shortage of land
3. shortage of water
4. shortage of natural resources
5. shortage of employment.

Answer 2

The effect of population increase in India are:

• Invest requirement and capital formation
• Effect on per capita income
• Effect on food problem
• Problems in unemployment
• Poverty

Explanation:

• India is the 2nd most populated country in the world. According to CIA factbook 2018, the population rate of India rises by 1.1% every year, which doesn’t seem a lot but is a lot in actual numbers.
• Due to the higher population of India, about 7.6% of the country’s per capita income is needed to be invested in people.
• Even the demographics of India is in such a manner that there are more dependents(children and old people) than active/working people hence capital formation is lower than consumption.
• Rapid growth of population in India leads to the root cause of food problem.
• Due to shortage of capital resource it is much difficult to provide employment for everyone.
• People spend their own resource to bringing up their upwards it result in less saving. Hence improvement in production is impossible.