Myth and realities regarding Population In India:--------

[dahiyars]

Myth and realities regarding Population In India:--------
Since India’s independence has population growth overtaken food production?
No
Since India’s independence, its population has grown slightly less than 3 times, while food production has grown over 4 times.
Does higher population density leads to lower economic progress.
No
 Orissa has a low population density (236 compared to 324 India) but the proportion of people living below the poverty line is the highest ( 47%).
 Kerala on the other hand has a much higher population density ( 819) but is economically better off.
 Netherlands and Japan have higher population densities than ours, but they are rich developed countries.

Is India’s population growing rapidly
No
 India’s current population growth rate is the lowest in the last in fifty years
 Large proportion of the population is young and in reproductive age group leading to momentum effect.
 High fertility in some places because of unmet needs (there is a desire without services being available) for contraception
 High fertility due to high infant mortality rate in some places
 Over 50% girls are married before the age of 18- leading to “too early, too frequent, too many”. 33% births occur before 24 months of the earlier birth

Do we need a targeted population control program to help women?
No
 Women are easy target of the Family Planning programme bypassing men
 Operations are done hurriedly and with no care leading to death, complications and failure.
 All other health services are unavailable

R.S.Dahiya

[vivek]

The world does not have enough resources to feed the consumption of people in China and India, if their standard of living became even 1/3 of what it is in United States. India and China have such a large base, that even a 1% growth means feeding an additional 10 million people. On the other hand, it seems that negative population growth has its own problems as Japan and Russia are finding out.

[mukeshkumar007]

Does higher population density leads to lower economic progress.
No
 Orissa has a low population density (236 compared to 324 India) but the proportion of people living below the poverty line is the highest ( 47%).

Look at gujrat has almost same population dinsity but economicly much better than orrisa ..


 Kerala on the other hand has a much higher population density ( 819) but is economically better off.

but in case of Bihar situation is different (880 almost near to kerla) but one of the least devloped states in India..


Is India’s population growing rapidly
No
 India’s current population growth rate is the lowest in the last in fifty years


how it can be concluded that India's popluation is not growing raplidly just by comparing past years growth rate.. past year's growth rate was measured on that time's population but today even one percent growth rate adds 10 million people.


 Large proportion of the population is young and in reproductive age group leading to momentum effect.


aggreed but how many of them are capable to carry this momentum effect ? only few percent of the population has the access of quality education.. I'm sure everyone is aware of this reality ....

[dkumars]

Does higher population density leads to lower economic progress.
No
 Orissa has a low population density (236 compared to 324 India) but the proportion of people living below the poverty line is the highest ( 47%).

Look at gujrat has almost same population dinsity but economicly much better than orrisa ..


 Kerala on the other hand has a much higher population density ( 819) but is economically better off.

but in case of Bihar situation is different (880 almost near to kerla) but one of the least devloped states in India..


Is India’s population growing rapidly
No
 India’s current population growth rate is the lowest in the last in fifty years


how it can be concluded that India's popluation is not growing raplidly just by comparing past years growth rate.. past year's growth rate was measured on that time's population but today even one percent growth rate adds 10 million people.


 Large proportion of the population is young and in reproductive age group leading to momentum effect.


aggreed but how many of them are capable to carry this momentum effect ? only few percent of the population has the access of quality education.. I'm sure everyone is aware of this reality ....



Good questions brother... i support u on some of ur points