Write an essay about - India’s Population and Its Economic Implications
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Comprising over a billion people and being the second most populated country in the world thus supporting over 17 per cent of the world population, India’s strengths and weaknesses visibly lie in its population.
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According to the 2011 Census, thepopulation of India stood at 1,210,193,422 persons, an increase of 17.64 per cent over the 2001 Census. It is down by 3.90 per cent in comparison to the preceding decade.
At present, the population growth is estimated at 1.58 per cent, a decline from an average growth of 2 per cent. All these indicate that our population is rising, but with a declining growth rate.
According to the demographic projections, India’s population may very soon overtake China’s in numbers to gain the distinction—perhaps, a dubious one—of being the country with the largest population in the world. Critics view the prospect of such a large population with horror.
India’s population is not just large but it is marked by a diversity not found elsewhere. At least six major religions of the world, besides other sects, have their followers in the country.
Over the last several thousand years, Indian ethnic diversity has assumed such a complex intermingled state that it is almost impossible to differentiate various racial strains. Here people speak multiple languages, and each one has a rich cultural history, literature and tradition of its own.
This linguistic diversity poses the problem of how to provide education at the primary level and how to develop a national consensus on a link language for the entire country. It also makes a challenging task to provide information on family planning to every section of the population.
Beyond all these differences, India also shows large economic diversity in terms of income shares, poverty, regional resources, etc. India has three distinct faces—the reasonably well-off middle and upper middle class constituting about 20 per cent of the population; what could be called the lower middle class, people who have received some of the benefits of growth since Independence and manage a level of living, if not comfortable, at least not desperate; and the bottom 30 per cent or so of the population which lives in considerable poverty.
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According to the 2011 Census, thepopulation of India stood at 1,210,193,422 persons, an increase of 17.64 per cent over the 2001 Census. It is down by 3.90 per cent in comparison to the preceding decade.
At present, the population growth is estimated at 1.58 per cent, a decline from an average growth of 2 per cent. All these indicate that our population is rising, but with a declining growth rate.
According to the demographic projections, India’s population may very soon overtake China’s in numbers to gain the distinction—perhaps, a dubious one—of being the country with the largest population in the world. Critics view the prospect of such a large population with horror.
India’s population is not just large but it is marked by a diversity not found elsewhere. At least six major religions of the world, besides other sects, have their followers in the country.
Over the last several thousand years, Indian ethnic diversity has assumed such a complex intermingled state that it is almost impossible to differentiate various racial strains. Here people speak multiple languages, and each one has a rich cultural history, literature and tradition of its own.
This linguistic diversity poses the problem of how to provide education at the primary level and how to develop a national consensus on a link language for the entire country. It also makes a challenging task to provide information on family planning to every section of the population.
Beyond all these differences, India also shows large economic diversity in terms of income shares, poverty, regional resources, etc. India has three distinct faces—the reasonably well-off middle and upper middle class constituting about 20 per cent of the population; what could be called the lower middle class, people who have received some of the benefits of growth since Independence and manage a level of living, if not comfortable, at least not desperate; and the bottom 30 per cent or so of the population which lives in considerable poverty.
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