Current Population Of India 1,065,070,607 (July 2004 est.

) Population Density of India 324 persons per square kilometer Age structure 0 to 14 years 15 to 64 years 65 years and over estimate) Median age Total Male Female Population growth rate Birth rate Death rate Net migration rate Infant mortality rate Female Male 24.4 years 24.4 years 24.4 years (2004 est.) 1.44% (2004 est.) 22.8 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) 8.38 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) -0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) Total 57.92 deaths/1,000 live births 57.29 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.) 58.52 deaths/1,000 live births 31.7% (male 173,869,856; female 164,003,915 63.5% (male 349,785,804; female 326,289,402) 4.8% (male 25,885,725; female 25,235,905) (2004

Life expectancy at birth Total population Male Female Total fertility rate HIV / AIDS Adult prevalence rate People living with HIV / AIDS Deaths because of HIV / AIDS Ethnic groups Indo-Aryan 72% 0.8% (2001 est.) 3.97 million (2001 est.) 310,000 (2001 est.) 63.99 years 63.25 years 64.77 years (2004 est.) 2.85 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Dravidian Mongoloid and other's Religions Hindu Muslim Christian Sikh

25% 3% (2000)

81.3% 12% 2.3% 1.9%

Other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2000) Languages English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the official language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language. Literacy Rate (Definition: Age 15 and over that can read and write) Total Population Male Female 59.5% 70.2% 48.3% (2003 est.)

India's Population 2012

Current Population of India in 2012 Total Male Population in India Total Female Population in India Sex Ratio Age structure 0 to 25 years 50% of India's current population 1,220,200,000 (1.22 billion) 628,800,000 (628.8 million) 591,400,000 (591.4 million) 940 females per 1,000 males

Currently, there are about 51 births in India in a minute. India's Population in 2011 India's Population in 2001 Population of India in 1947 1.21 billion 1.02 billion 350 million

POPULATION POLICY Population policy refers to the Government policy to control the population. Government has realized the problem of rising population on economic development of a country. Improvement in standard of living of the people needs a significant decline in the growth of population. Improvement in health facilities leads to decline in death-rate. It implies that decline in birth-rate is necessary to control the growth rate of population. Family planning measures have been adopted by the Government for the effective control of birthrate. Government does not make any coercive method to implement the family planning programme. Family planning is democratic in nature. It means married people are persuaded to limit the size of their family. It persuades couple to limit the size of the family and also gives incentive for the family planning. Different steps which are taken by the Government in the family planning programme are given below: Family Planning Programme: Government gives different advertisements on radio, television, newspapers and films to educate the couple about the benefits of small family and teaches people those children by choice and not by chance. This type of advertisement gives incentive for the people to control their family. People are now being educated about the problems of large family and different methods to control birth. (i) Birth control facilities are now being provided in different health centre and hospitals. (ii) Financial incentives are. Now being given to the couple for vasectomy operation, (iii) Green card is now being provided to the couple who have operated two-child-norm. This card helps people to get facilities in employment and promotion. Other Measures: Except these above stated programmes other steps are now being adopted to reduce birth-rate. (i) Child marriage is prohibited. The marriage age for male and female has been increased lo 21 years and 18 years respectively. (ii) Educated couples are generally interested for small family. So education is being given to the females to reduce birth-rate. If females are educated, they will prefer small family and late marriage. Due to more incentive for the female education, it is expected to control the growth rate of population.

(iii) The measures which are now being taken in different five year plans will help to control birth-rate because, due to economic development standard of living of the people rises. So to maintain a high standard of living, people should be interested to adopt small family norm.