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Population of India

Population of India. By Jason Webb. Population Distribution in India. What is it:. How and why population is spread across the landscape. Population Distribution throughout India.

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Population of India

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  1. Populationof India By Jason Webb

  2. Population Distribution in India What is it: How and why population is spread across the landscape

  3. Population Distribution throughout India This map of India shows that the most densely populated areas are the costal areas and around the Indo Gangetic Plain. There is also densely populated cities e.g. Mumbai and Delhi with both city around 13-14 million people in each of the densely populated cities in India.

  4. What effects population distribution throughout India? The effects include the availability of resources e.g. out in the Thar desert, there are very limited resources or no resources at all. There is no water for farming which means no food and it has a large effect on everyday living in the extreme environments some of the Indian population live in. Also in area of high population density clean water and nutritious food is hard to find because there is such a large demand for these resources that are needed to sustain life anywhere on the planet.

  5. What is it: Population Diversity in India Composition of the population including ethnicity, age, sex (Gender)

  6. Age and sex graph for India 2008 This Age and sex graph shows that India has a youthful population and will slowly age until the population becomes a mostly old population. It will bubble while the youthful population slowly age until there are a lot more older people that need looking after than there are youth to help the older generation.

  7. Why does India have such a youthful population? It is mostly because the adults want somebody there to look after them for when they grow old but it is also because of there Hindu religion. There are also a need for lots of youth so they can work in the farming industry but are mostly males.

  8. Population Change in India What is it: Population Change over time including: Population totals, age/sex structure and natural increase

  9. India’s Total Population Growth from 1950-2050 2,000 1,800 1,600 1,400 1,200 1,000 Population (1,000s) 800 • Population Growth 600 • Projected Future Population Growth 400 200 0 2050 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 1950 1960 1970 1980 Years

  10. What influences India's population change? There are 4 main factors that contribute to the population change in India. Natural Increase which is births - deaths and migration which is Immigration – Emigration. India has a very large population so the natural increase is higher than most other more developed countries and at the moment this is a very young population full of teenagers and younger children without the need for most of them to look after the elderly. The average person will only reach 65 before death will occur which mean less of an elderly population to support. Also what sort of area people live in will hugely affect the population with some people dyeing young and some other place having more children than they can support, it is a big problem is India’s lesser communities. ”Slums” is a term used which describes people that are living with poor living standards. They are very densely packed areas and are usually separated from the middle class or wealthier people of India

  11. Population Migration in India What is it: Internal and External migration trends of a population.

  12. People migrate to get to a better area that better suits there needs. Push and Pull factors are the things that push people away from living in specific area or Pull someone into an area to live. For example: India’s push and pull factors • Pull Factors: • Job Opportunities • A better lifestyle • Available Resources • Lower Taxation • Business opportunities • Living Standards (Higher) • Chain Migration • Push Factors: • Diseases • Crime • Religious or Racial Conflict • Natural Disasters • Higher Taxation • Living Standards (Low) • Chain Migration

  13. What is it: Population Sustainability in India Capacity of the environment to support a population on the long term.

  14. How much longer and how India will sustain it’s population for the years ahead? India’s biggest problem would be to be able to provide enough food and fresh water for the entire country to use. There Agricultural industry uses a lot of India’s fresh water for growing crops to produce food and the water consumption is not going to change any time soon. Because with a fast growing population, the population will need more crops to produce food and this will cause more water usage and possible leave some areas of India without fresh water for them to use. So India has to make a choice on how they increase the production of food without using more water reserves. Some ideas could be along the lines of genetically modified crops that need minimal water to survive or to invest in Desalination plants to produce more water from the ocean. The down side of Desalination plants is that they can produce some bad by-products from removing salt from the water which is not very good for the environment. India’s population can survive in the long term if they make the right decisions about how to balance food production with less water usage.

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