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“There has been a sudden abrupt rise in population of India since 1951.“ Support the statement with reasons.
Answer:
Answer to be written in the exam:
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India’s
population has been steadily increasing
from 361 million in 1951 to 1210 million in 2011.
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It reveals that from 1951 to 1981, the
annual rate of population growth was steadily increasing
, which explains the
rapid increase in population from 361 million in 1951 to 683 million in 1981.
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Despite the
decline in growth ratio,
the
number of people
being added
every decade was steadily increasing.
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Since 1981, however, the
rate of growth started declining gradually
. During this period, birth rates declined rapidly.
- Still 182 million p eople were added to the total population in the 1990s alone (an annual addition larger than ever before).
