What is composition of population?Explain in short about its importance in planning.
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The merits of knowing the composition of population are enlisted below: It helps to find out the structure of population. It helps to study on various demographic indicators. It helps for the future plan such as agecomposition,sex composition and so on. It is the main pillar of populationstudies.Population composition is the description of a population according to characteristics such as age and sex. These data are often compared over time using population pyramids.
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The distribution of population according to religion, sex, caste, occupation, age, area of settlement, mother tongue, literacy, etc. is called the population composition. lt is also known as population structure.
Population composition plays an important role in planning because it helps to know the number of males or females, their age groups, literacy rate, their occupation, their income level and health conditions, etc. that may help to utilise human resource, provide needed facilities and manage the population.
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