Population

 Population : Regional Pattern of Growth India’s population is young. Its birth and death rates are both near the global Average. More than half the population is under age 30 and less than one-fourth is age 45 or older. Life expectancy is about 68 for men and 70 for Women. A population explosion … Read more

Census Of India

 Census of India : Economic and Social features Rural and urban Population Altogether, 833.5 million persons live in rural area as per Census 2011, which was more than two-third of the total population, while 377.1 million persons live in urban areas. Urban proportion has gone up from 17.3 per cent in 1951 to … Read more

Vital Statics Of Birth And Death

                  Health Status of the country   The  health  of  a  nation  is  an  essential  component  of  development,  vital  to  the   nation‟s economic Growth and internal stability. Assuming the minimum level of health care to the Population  is  a  critical  constituent  of  the  development  process. First,  India  has  to  complete  its  unfinished … Read more

Employment status of India

EMPLOYMENT As per Employment-Unemployment Survey (by NSSO) of 2011-12 (latest available), total workforce employed stands at 47.36 crore; with 23.16 crore in agriculture and 24.2 crore in Industry and Services According to the fifth Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) conducted between April and December 2015, 83% of the workers in India were self-employed, casual or contract … Read more

Urbanisation

Introduction Urban areas have been recognized as “engines of inclusive economic Growth”. Of the 121 crore Indians, 83.3 crore live in rural areas while 37.7 crore stay in urban areas, i.e approx 32 % of the Population. The Census Of India, 2011 defines urban settlement as :- All the places which have Municipality, corporation, Cantonment Board … Read more

Urbanization

 Demographically it’s the increase in Population of cities and towns ,while sociologically it’s the spread of urban way of life to the country side . Urbanization in India has occurred more slowly than in other developing countries and the proportion of the population in urban areas has been only 28 per cent based on the … Read more

Age Structure, Sex Ratio And Rural Urban Composition Of India

–2/”>a >DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>   Age structure, sex ratio and Rural-Urban composition of India   Rural-Urban Composition:   For the first time since Independence, the absolute increase in Population is more in urban areas that in rural areas Rural Population in India: 68.84% Urban Population in India: 31.16% Level of … Read more

Structural Changes In The Indian Economy

–2/”>a >DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> Change in composition of domestic product or change in NATIONAL INCOME by Industry of origin refers to change in relative significance (share) of different sectors of the economy. Generally, an economy is divided into three major sectors viz. primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Primary Sector includes … Read more