The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region” -(Webster’s dictionary) In sociology, population refers to a collection of human beings.

1. POPULATION
DISTRIBUTION IN INDIA
LECTURER (CON) BGSBU
SAIMA HABEEB
MSC (N) IST YEAR

2. TERMINOLOGIES
Population distribution – the spread of the
population, where people live.
Population density – the number of people
per km squared.
Densely populated – an area with a high
number of people per km squared.
Sparsely populated – an area where the
number of people per km squared is low.

4. DEFINITION
The whole number of people or
inhabitants in a country or region” -
(Webster’s dictionary)
In sociology, population refers to a
collection of human beings.

5. PopulationPopulation
distributiondistribution
Patterns of
population
distribution tend to
be uneven. It follows
that populations are
more or less sparse
or dense in different
locations, regions
The way in which people are spread across a
given area is known as population distribution.
Geographers study population distribution
patterns at different scales: local, regional,
national, and global.

6. Sparse and densely populated
areas
Densely
populated
Lots of people per
Km².
Sparsely populated
Few people per Km².

7. Factors Influencing
Population Distribution
The factors that influence
population distribution are:
natural resources, climate,
economic development,
government policy, rural/urban
settlement, capital resources, and
conflicts.

9. Natural Resources
People live closer to valuable resources
such as oil, arable land, and fresh
water.Most people in the world live
near the coast or along a major
waterway and they live on flat ground
that is easy to farm.A good example of how natural
resources affect population distribution
is China. Western China is not heavily
populated because it is mountainous or
a desert..

10. Climate
•There are parts of the earth where
people cannot live or it is very
difficult to live because it is too
cold. People don’t live in
Antarctica and very few people live
in the arctic.Few people live in hot climates
such as deserts. Look at the
Sahara and Gobi deserts.

11. Government Policy
•In the United States people are
free to live wherever they want,
however, in countries such as
China or the former Soviet Union
the government forced people to
live in certain areas.

12. Rural/Urban Settlement
•The location of cities affects
population distribution. Think
about the United States. Most of
the major cities are on the coasts
or near the Great Lakes. These
are also the most heavily populated
areas.

13. Economic Development
•People don’t live in areas where
there are no jobs. This is one
reason why people migrate to other
countries or to cities.

14. Conflicts
•Wars have a major impact on
population distribution because
people flee areas that have
conflicts. Some examples are the
Sudan, Rwanda, and the Former
Yugoslavia.

15. Capital Resources
•Areas that have good
transportation networks such as
roads, trains, subways, or busses
are more heavily populated.

16. Population Growth
• We know where people live and why,
and we also know where the population
is denser. Now let’s talk about why
populations grow quicker than others.

18. • Current Population of India in 2010 is around
1.15 billion
• Currently, India is second largest country in the
world after China in terms of population.
• By 2050, the population of India will be largest
in the world estimated to be around 1.53
billion.
• With only 2.4 % worlds land area India is
supporting 16% of the world’s population.
• Global population has increased threefold
during this century, from 2 billion to 6 billion,
the population of India has increased nearly five
folds form 28 million to 1 billion.
• So Indian Population has increased more than
three times.

19. POLULATION
EXPLOSION

20. MEANING OF POPULATION
EXPLOSION
The literal meaning of population
explosion is “a pyramiding of numbers
of a biological population” (Webster’s
dictionary)

22. DEFINITION
• Population explosion or overpopulation
refers to a condition where an
organism’s numbers exceed the
carrying capacity of its habitat.
(Encyclopedia)
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23. DEFINITION
Population explosion is the
phenomenon of the size of a
population tending to a very large
number in a finite interval of time is
called population explosion i.e. rapid
increase in population for a long time
may be termed as “population
explosion”. (Birth rate is much higher
than the death rate for long time may
lead to population explosion)

24. BARE
FACTS
ABOUT
POPULATIO
N
EXPLOSION

25. • Every 6th person on today is an
every Indian and by turn of this century
every 5th person will be an Indian.
• India adds about 10 lakh persons to its
population every fortnight.
• By 2045 or earlier , would overtake
as the world’s most populous
country.
• 49% of the increase in India's population
is from 4 states Bihar, Madhya
pardesh,Rajasthan,UP.

26. CONTD…..
India’s population has been
steadily increasing since ……...?
• The year 1921 is called the ‘big divide’
because the absolute number of people
added to the population during each
decade has been on the increase since
1921.
• India’s population is currently
increasing at the rate of 16 million each

27. CONTD….
• Most populous states of India are
• Uttar Pradesh (16.17%)
• Maharashtra (9.42%)
• Bihar(8.07%)
• west Bengal(7.81%)
• Andhra Pradesh(7.37%)
• Tamilnadu (6.05%)
• M.P.(5.88%)
• Rajasthan (5.50%)
• Karnataka(5.14%)
• Gujarat (4.97%)
These 10 states account for about 76.34% of
total population of India. {According to 2001
census}

28. Estimated Birth rate, Death rate, Natural
growth rate and Infant mortality rate, 2008(SRS
Bulletin Oct 2009 volume 44 no.1)
TOTAL BIRTH
RATE
TOTAL DEATH
RATE
TOTAL
GROWTH RATE
INFANT
MORTALITY
RATE
22.8 7.9 15.4 53

33. CAUSES
OF high birth
& death rates.

34. Universality of
marriage
Early marriage
Early puberty

35. CONTD……

36. CONTD……

37. CONTD…..
• Declining Death rate

38. Contd….
Impact of national health programmes
Improvement In Food Supply
RNTCP
NLEP
NACP

53. ASSIGNMENT
Write a note on the
role of Nurse in
population control?

54. THANKING YOU

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