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TOPIC -15

Population of India- Merits and Demerits

Quick Points to be Remember

• India is the second highest populated country in the world with over 120
crore population according to census 2011.
• According to census 2016, the population of India is around 132 crore and
is expected to level the demographics of China within no time which has
the population around 137.25 crores.
• The debate about the growth of the population is a never-ending one.
Some call the huge population a blessing and some call it a curse.
• Most of the experts feel that identifying the merits and demerits of
population growth is the most complicated task, but a majority of them feel
that India will become the nation with the highest number of earning age-
group people, youngsters between 20-35 years in the upcoming years.
• But in some parts of the world, the populous countries like China are
suffering from issues of unemployment and the highest number of
unproductive age-group right now. Some feel that this situation can repeat
in India in future.
• On the other hand, economists feel that growth of population is helpful to
the nation by improving the potential for becoming the economic
superpower.
• With the rapid growth of population in the 1950s -1980s, the growth in
unemployment has increased to alarming range in addition to the shortage
of infrastructural facilities.
• However, the efforts of the government to control the rapid population
growth proved fruitful by 1990s.

Introduction

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