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Demographic Profile of

IndiaIntroduction

Characteristics of Indian Population

Population growthAge

Sex

Religion

Language

Occupation

National Policy on Population

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Common concepts &

Indicators

Birth Rate: Total number of live births in a particular

area on per thousand population.

Death Rate : Number of deaths in a given area duringa given time per thousand population.

Growth rate of population: Difference between birth

rate & death rate.

Fertility rate : Number of live births per 1000 womanin the age group of 15- 49 years.

Infant mortality rate: death rates of babies less than 1

year.

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Characteristics of Indian

PopulationIndian population exhibit the following characteristics:

Age Structure : In Indian population there are

significant number of people in the age structure of 0-14 (37.8%) & in the age group of 15 to 59 there are

55.5% & 6.7% to 60+ age group. Effects of this age

structure in economy is adverse to development.

Sex Composition : The sex ratio in Indian population

is 927 females per 1000 males in 1991census. It is

continuously declining since 1951. It has serious

implication on marriage rate, death rate birth rate etc.

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Indian Population (Cont.)MaritalStatus : In India 50.4% are unmarried,

44.6% are married and rest are widowed, separated

etc. Mean age of marriage is 19.4 for females & 24.7for females. Depending on education, region or

occupation this age varies both for males & females.

Rural-Urban Settlement: Of the total population

28.3% is urban and 71.7% is rural (in1998). It shows

considerable increase in than 1951( 17.3%). Rural tourban migration are there 26.6%(approx).

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Indian population ( Cont.)Occupationalstructure : Only 44.86% people in

India in the age group of 15-59 are economically

active & the rest are dependent on them. In terms ofsex only 67.6% of males are working where as 32.4

% females are working.

LiteracyRate: Literacy level in India is quite high

52.21% were found literate of which 64.13% are

males and 39.29% are females. The highest literacy

rate was found in Kerala.

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ContinuationLanguage : Of the 15 major language Hindi is used

by majority (43%). Then came the turn ofBengali,

Telugu & Marathi (8%) each.

Religious Composition : Hindus & Muslims are

dominating religions of the country. Other religions do

exist.

Schedule Caste & schedule Tribe : According to

1991 census roughly 1 in every 4 persons in India

belongs to either SC or ST.

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Synopsis

Definition & types of demography.

Some common concepts.

Characteristics of Indian population on the basis ofage, sex, marital status, rural-urban settlement,

occupation, language ,religion, literacy & ST/SC

structure.

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World Population growth

Globally, the growth rate of the human population has

been steadily declining .

although the last 50 years have seen a rapidincrease in population due to medical advances and

massive increase in agricultural productivity made by

the Green Revolution.

Total world population 6.684 billion.

India is the second largest populated state of the

world.

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Population Growth of

IndiaThe post World War-II period witnessed

population explosion all over the world.

Indian population growth is subdivided into 3distinct phases-

a) From 1901- 1931 (17%) - sporadic

b) From 1931-1961 (57.4%) rapidc) From 1961-1999 ( 127.4%) - explosive

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A Table Presentation

Year Population ( in

Million)

1600 1001800 120

1901 238.4

1951 361.1

1991 846.3

2001 1029

2007 1134

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State wise distribution

India has 35 states & U.T with varying population

size.

They are classified into 2 broad categories I. Major states with population of more than 20 million

II. Smaller states and Union Territories with less than

20 million.

Total population of 17 major states counts for 982.32million i.e. 95 % .

6 U.T. shares 2.7 million only 0.26 %

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Regional shares of projected

population