Question

What do you mean by growth of population and how is it calculated ?

Answer 1

there is your answer ;-)
growth of population indicates the. increasing the population. and it is calculated by Calculating Growth Rates. The annual percentage growth rate is simply the percent growth divided by N, the number of years

Answer 2

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Growth of population or population growth refers to the change in the number of inhabitants of a country during a speafic period of time, say during the last ten years.

It can be expressed in two ways:

$\longrightarrow$ Absolute Numbers: It is obtained by simply subtracting the earlier population from the later population. It is referred to as the 'absolute increase'.

$\longrightarrow$ Annual Growth Rate: When the rate or pace of population is studied in per cent per annum. If increase is 2 per cent, ie, there was an increase of two persons for every 100 persons in the base population. This is referred to as the annual growth rate.