Population Test - 11

Post 1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next will be held in 2021.

So total seven census were conducted.

The rate of growth of population was irregular and moderate till 1921. The year of 1921 is known as the period of great divide. The rate of population growth fluctuated between 1.0 to 1.35 per cent per annum. The period from 1921 to 1951 was period of fast growth. The increase in population amounted to 109 million. 

Sex ratio defined as the number of females per thousand males. Sex ratio in an important social indicator to measure the extent of prevailing equality between the males and females in a society at a given point of time.

 

State	Population	Density growth	density	Sex ratio
Uttar Pradesh	16.51%	20.2%	828/km2	919
Maharashtra	9.28%	16.0%	365/km2	929
Bihar	8.6%	25.4%	1102/km2	918
West Bengal	7.54%	13.8%	1029/km2	953
Madhya pradesh	6%	20.3%	236/km2	931

Kerala has achieved a literacy rate of 93.91%. Bihar is the least literate state in India, with a literacy of 63.82%.

Actual numbers of females in the country's population is enumaerated through Sex-ratio.

• The Constitution of India designates the official language of the Government of India as Hindi written in the Devanagari script, as well as English.
  
• There is no national language as declared by the Constitution of India.
  
• Hindi and English are used for official purposes such as parliamentary proceedings, judiciary, communications between the Central Government and  State Government.
  

Demography is the study of human populations – their size, composition and distribution across space – and the process through which populations change. Births, deaths and migration are the 'big three' of demography, jointly producing population stability or change.

• Bihar continues to be a state having the lowest literacy rate in comparison to the national average, while the female literacy rate also happens to be awfully low. Although Bihar's total literacy rate is only 47.53 percent in comparison to the national average of 65.38 percent, the female literacy rate is only 33.37 percent against the national average of 54.16 percent.
  
• The negative attitude of parents towards the girl child and her education is one of the major reasons for the low female literacy rate in India.
  

The net reproduction rate, R₀, is the average number of daughters that would be born to a female (or a group of females) if she passed through her lifetime conforming to the age-specific fertility and mortality rates of a given year.