India’s Population Reality!
WORLD POPULATION DAY-TODAY IT REMINDS US OF OUR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY TO CARE FOR EACH OTHER AND OUR PLANET Smaller Default Larger This year’s World Population Day falls during a milestone year, when we anticipate the birth of the earth’s seven-billionth inhabitant. This is an opportunity to celebrate our common humanity and our diversity. It is also a reminder of our shared responsibility to care for each other and our planet. It provides us an opportunity to analyze our successes and our failures. This year’s World Population Day has more significance for India, because the results of Census-2011 have just been released which provide a fertile ground for an assessment of our current demographic situation and future challenges.
The provisional population figures of the 2011 Census do suggest that India’s population growth is finally slowing down. Although the total population size exceeded most projections, the growth rate has slowed compared to the 1990s. This is largely ...