Full Description
Monitoring the population plays a key role in helping meet the national level challenges arising out of the rapid rise in India's population. With the increasing concern of every educated citizen in the country for our rapidly growing population, it has become necessary to impart essential knowledge about the population phenomenon to our younger generation. The book has been written utilizing the latest data to the extent it has been possible. This book can cater to the needs of all those who are keenly interested in India's demographic challenges. A conscious effort has been made to have a clear and comprehensible exposition with minimum of technical materials to help general readers of the subject.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables 7
Preface 13
1. India's Population: Size, Growth and Distribution 15
2. Composition and Characteristics of Population 54
3. Nuptiality 111
4. Reproductive Behaviour 156
5. Mortality 200 6. Migration 265
7. Urbanization and Urban Growth 303
8. Programmes and Policies of Population Control and Public Health 343
9. Problems of Rising Population and Sustainable Development 375
Glossary 401 Bibliography 415
Index 429
