India’s population pegged at 1,210.2 million
New Delhi: India’s census commissioner says the 2011 count puts the country’s population at about 1,210.2 million people, or 17 percent of the world population.
C. Chandramauli said Thursday that the preliminary results show a 17.6 percent increase from the 2001 census, but indicated that the growth rate is slowing.
The provisional 2011 Census report released on Thursday has pegged India’s population pegged at 1,210.2 million (male — 623.7 million and female — 586.5 million).
The country’s population is now bigger than the combined population of USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh, says the Census report. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state and the combined population of UP and Maharashtra is bigger than the U.S.
Child sex ratio in 2011 is 914 female against 1,000 male — the lowest since Independence.
Highest population density is in Delhi’s northeast district(37,346 per sq km) while the lowest is in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (just one per sq km), says 2011 Census report.
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Good News ?
According to World Health Organization’s “ Health Statistics – 2011 “ report, life span of an average Indian went up as follows :
1990 ………………….. 57 years
2000 …………………. 61 years
2009 …………………… 65 years
Good news, no doubt . And hopefully, the life span will keep rising in the decades to come, when India’s population is expected to reach 1700 million people by 2050.
[ Source : Times of India / 16 May,2011 ]
Will we succeed in growing enough food and create enough jobs for all these millions ?
May be – if we can succeed in bringing back those 4 lakh crores of black money that Baba Ramdev estimates are lying in foreign banks.
Surely,we can pass a law to declare these monies as “ National Assets “, but only problem is that the foreign banks are governed by their own national laws !
May be we should shift our focus to prevention of generation of black money in the first place.
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