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Unit 30: Demographic Dimensions of the Family and Marriage System

3. Increasing Population and Food Problem: Less developed countries and developing coun- Notes
tries run short their food material because of increasing population. They import grains
from other nations.
4. Increasing Population and Price Rise: Effective demand for food reduces with population
growth as less supply increases prices.
5. Increasing Population and Education: Illiterate increases in less developed countries with
population increase.
6. Increasing Population and Residence Problem: Problem of residence and healthily sur-
rounding increases. How to accommodate more people with population increase?
7. Increasing Population and Unemployment: Increasing population gives birth to unem-
ployment, casual employment and disguised unemployment.
8. Increasing Population and Living Standard: The limited income gets distributed on in-
creasing members, so it turns difficult to contribute food, cloth, education, entertainment,
games etc. for all. In this way increasing population is responsible for low growth of a
country.
9. Increasing Population and Poverty: The poverty increases if population is bigger than
required. Land and resources are limited in every country, if used for big population a one
will get small portion of it. It effects domestic produce, National / per Capital Income. That
makes the country poorer.
10. Increasing Population and Delinquency: Poverty, unemployment and delinquency increase
as the rate of population increases because it get difficult to collect feeding resources for all.
11. Increasing Population and Family Disintegration: Control turns problem as family mem-
bers increase. Parent goes for work and it gives liberty time to kids. They turns naughty,
overlook family values, and it gives way to family disintegration.
12. Increasing Population or Civic Problems: Population growth give birth to industrialisa-
tion urbanisation. People transfers from villages to cities. Result is, the problems due to
industrialisation and the unrbanisation increases.
13. Increasing Population and Politics: Big population is responsible for war, regionson, re-
bels, capitalization. It increases administrative problems.
Describe the effects of over Population.

30.3 Summary

• Under Socio-demography, we study birth rate, death rate, age structure, marital status, sex
ratio, etc.
• Malthusian theory is based on three principles : Population growth rate, food material
growth rate, birth control.
• 1.8 cr. population increased every year in India, which is equal to Australian population.
• According to 2011 census, Total population is 121.01 Cr., with 62.37 cr. (51.53%) male and
58.64 cr. (48.46%) female.

• 2011 Census shows sex ratio 940/ 1000 male and literacy is 74.04% in India.

30.4 Keywords

1. Demography: Demography is the science of statistics, which studies birth, marriage, death,
residence, non-residence, status of population, percentage and dimension.

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