Demographic trend in India Flashcards
Demography
Branch of science deals with population structure.
Problems of increasing popolation
Scarcity
unemployment
Starvation
Crises in health sectors
India’s population in world
world - 804.5 crore
India - 142.86
How social development index of a country determined ?
Population data such as
birth rate
death rate
migration…
structure and composition of the population of an area take into consideration on account of what?
age structure
male female ratio
dependent ration
Systemic data collection of people
survey,Census
2 types of demography
Social demography
Formal demography
Social demography
It investigates social demography and its causes and consequences of change.it emphasizes socio-economic and political patterns of a region
Formal demography
It measures and analyses the factors of population change.
eg:census,survey
it collects and analyses the data on population size,age structure,gendet ratio
example for formal demography
Census,Survey
Census activities of india are headed by?
registrar general and Census commissioner of india
largest census in the world
India
Gap between two census
10 years
Census started in india
1872
last census
2011