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Banking service chronicle
Banking service chronicle published this article page 5 Density of population is expressed as number of persons per unit area. It helps in getting a better understanding of the spatial distribution of population in relation to land. The density of population in India 2011 is 382 persons per sq km. There has been a steady increase of more than 200 persons per sq km over the last 50 years as the density of population increased from 117 persons/ sq km in 1951 to 382 persons/sq km in 2011. The data show...
Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine Published this article page no 6 Among the northern Indian States Bihar 1106 West Bengal 1028 and and Uttar Pradesh 829 have higher densities while Kerala 860 and Tamil Nadu 555 have higher densities among the peninsular Indian states. States like Assam Gujarat Andhra Pradesh Haryana Jharkhand Odisha have moderate densities. The hill states of the Himalayan region and North eastern states of India excluding Assam have relatively low densities while the Union Territories...
Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine Published this article page no 7 Growth of population is the change in the number of people living in a particular area between two points of time. Its rate is expressed in percentage. Population growth has two components namely natural and induced. While the natural growth is analysed by assessing the crude birth and death rates the induced components are explained by the volume of inward and outward movement of people in any given area. However in the present chapter ...
Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine Published this article page no 8 The period from 1901-1921 is referred to as a period of stagnant or stationary phase of growth of Indias population since in this period growth rate was very low even recording a negative growth rate during 1911-1921. Both the birth rate and death rate were high keeping the rate of increase low Appendix–iii. Poor health and medical services illiteracy of people at large and inefficient distribution system of food and other basic ne...
Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine Published this article page no 9 The decades 1951-1981 are referred to as the period of population explosion in India which was caused by a rapid fall in the mortality rate but a high fertility rate of population in the country. The average annual growth rate was as high as 2.2 per cent. It is in this period after the Independence that developmental activities were introduced through a centralised planning process and economy started showing up ensuring the improvement ...