Population

Population is the number of citizens of a particular country living in the country and elsewhere at a particular time.

It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you population.

It clearly explains the determinants of population. They include death rate, birth rate, migration and natural growth rate.

It analyzes the factors responsible for a rise in population. They include better medical care, early marriage, increased fertility and lack of family planning.

It appraises the factors responsible for a fall in population. They include lack of better medical care, late marriage, decreased fertility, family planning, disasters and wars.

It evaluates the effects of increasing population, decreasing population and ageing population.

It discusses some theories of population like the Malthusian theory and demographic transition theory.

It clearly explains under-population, optimum population, over-population, and geographical, age, sex and occupational distributions of population.

And it explores population census. It throws light on the importance of population census. It outlines the problems of population census.

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