Examine the religious composition of India.
The dependency of human population is the portion of the total population who does not contribute directly to any economically gainful work. Usually ratio of population below 15 years of age is designated as young and ratio of population above 60 years is old. Both young and old population form dependent population. Dependency ratio in India is 78.3% according 1991 census. According to census 2001 it is 76.4%. Dependency ratio is calculated as under :
What do you know about the linguistic composition of India? Explain.
Mention the causes of the rapid growth of population in India from 1951 to 1981.
Explain the four different phases of population growth in India along the factors responsible for it.
Mention the four language families in India. Which one of them is spoken by the largest number of population in the country? In which four states this language is mainly spoken?
