National Baseline Survey of Population Education in India

Abstract

As per the latest census report of the year 1971, India accounted for 548 million people i.e., 15 per cent of the world’s population. The average density of population in India is seven times that of the world as a whole. The birth rate at the present moment is estimated to be 33 per thousand and the death rate at 14 per thousand. Wide as it is already the gap between the birth rate and death rate is further likely to be widened as the death rate has been dropping down very fast whereas the birth rate has been either steady or falling very marginally. It should suffice to say that one fourth of India’s total population was added in a single decade 1961-71.