POPULATION & ITS IMPACT IN INDIA

WHAT IS POPULATION

A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area

In sociology, population refers to a collection of human beings

IS POPULATION EXPLOSION A BOON OR A CURSE? Its Boon for a developed country But, its Curse for developing country

Is India is a developed or developing country?

INDIA’S POPULATION -2012

• Total population – 1.22 billion• Male population - 628.8 million• Female population – 591.4 million• Sex ratio - 940 female per 1000

male

• 0 to 25 years - 50% of current population

STATISTIC OF INDIAN POPULATION India’s Population in 1947 – 350 million India’s Population in 2001 - 1.02 million India’s population in 2011 – 1.21 million

HOW DOES POPULATION CHANGE OCCUR?

Population change = (Births + Immigration) – (Deaths + Emigration)

The increase in birth rates due to medical improvements

The decrease in death rates due to better medical facilities .

Immigration to better developed countries due to better job opportunities and natural causes like hurricanes, earthquakes, and so forth.

REASONS FOR INCREASE IN POPULATION:

BIRTH RATE DEATH RATE

MIGRATION

BIRTH RATE

51 births a minute, 3,060 an hour, 73,440 a day, which calculates to nearly 26.1 million a year

POVERTY No foods No cloths No jobs

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL NORMS According to ABC News, the famous

Indian author, Shobha De said, “God said ‘Go forth and produce’ and we just went ahead and did exactly that.”

 Another one of India’s cultural norms is for a girl to get married at an early age. In most of the rural areas and in some urban areas as well,

DEATH RATE The crude death rate in India in 1981

was approximately 12.5, and that decreased to approximately 8.7 in 1999.

The infant mortality rate in India decreased from 129 in 1981 to approximately 72 in 1999

This development is good for the economy and society of India, but strictly in terms of population, this advancement has further enhanced the increase in population.

MIGRATION

Better Education

Job Opportunity

currently the migration in India is –0.08 migrants per 1000 population

EFFECTS OF POPULATION EXPLOSION

Air Pollution

Water Pollution

Unemployment and Illiteracy

Food Resources

AIR POLLUTION

Increase in 2O C in air temperatures will be enough to decrease the rice yield by 0.75 ton/hectare.

It is also estimated that a drastic increase in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide may cause wheat production to fall as much as 68%.

Additionally, the changing climatic conditions have the potential to significantly increase tropical disturbances like cyclones and storms in coastal regions

WATER POLLUTION There is no life without water. One might think that 70% of the earth is

covered with water, so, why worry about the water problem?

In fact, 3 sides of the Indian subcontinent is surrounded by water. And there are several rivers, lakes, and other sources of water within the country as well

However the fact is that less than 3 percent of that water we see can be used for human consumption and industrial uses.

EFFECT OF POLLUTION

Petroleum products required for automobiles, cooking, and other such human activities.

Pesticides and herbicides used for agriculture by the Indian farmers.

Heavy metals from industries, automobiles’ exhausts and mines.

Hazardous wastes. Excessive organic matter like fertilizers and

other organic matter used by farmers. Sediments caused by soil erosion produced by

strip mines, agriculture and roads. Thermal pollution caused by deforestation.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ILLITERACY in 1972-73, unemployment rates in rural

areas were 1.2 for males and 0.5 for females, and in urban areas, it was 4.8 for males and 6.0 for females.

This unemployment rate rose to 2.3 for males and 1.5 for females in rural areas and 4.9 for males and 8.2 for females in urban areas in 1998-99.

FOOD RESOURCES Resources are always limited. And in a

developing and highly populous country like India, resources are even scarcer

“…more than half of all children under the age of four are malnourished, 30 percent of newborns are significantly underweight, and 60 percent of women are anemic.”

AVAILABLE MEASURES TO CONTROL POPULATION  The government of India has been

organizing several programs for limiting the population increase and has been spending millions of dollars on controlling the birth rate.

Family Planning

Two-child family

CONCLUSION This is the right time to plan seriously

about this issues If we fail, even God cannot help

If population increase leads us back in time to the Stone Age, then what is the advantage of years of technological advancements and our hard work?

Can we really enjoy a newborn in our lives when we know that we would not be able to give our child the basic necessities of life?

Being a Student, is that not our responsibility to wish for the best for our future generations?

I want my future generations to live in India and cherish the beauty of the land, its monuments and rich culture that we Indians are so proud of, while living a happy sustainable life with all the basic amenities readily available without fighting for it or bargaining for it.

I want my future generations to have a happy successful career and life, and at the same time, enjoy the beauty of nature in its fullest.

I want my future generations to see and have the world as it was meant to be, and not what we have made it into.

THANK YOU

din

ovesp

er@

face

book.co

m