CBSE Questions for Class 8 Geography Human Resources Quiz 1 - MCQExams.com

•  India is the world's second most populous country after the People's Republic of China.
  
•  India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area and is home to 17.5 percent of the world's population.
  
• The ten countries with the largest population in the world today
  
• are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan,
  
• Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia and Japan.

• Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the  proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change.
  
•  It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas
  
• In future it is estimated 93% of urban growth will occur in developing nations, 
  
•  This unprecedented movement of people is forecast to continue and intensify during the next few decades, mushrooming cities to sizes unthinkable only a century ago.
  

The year 1921 is taken as the demographic divide for the reason that before this year, the population was not stable, sometimes it increased and at other times it decreased. The growth rate of population was generally low before 1921. But after this year, there has been considerable and continuous increase in the population.

According to the provisional reports released on 31 March 2011, the Indian population increased to 121 crores with a decadal growth of 17.64%. Adult literacy rate increased to 74.04% with a decadal growth of 9.21%. The motto of census 2011 was 'Our Census, Our future'

With latest Population Census of India in 2011, the total number of people living in India has been estimated at 1,210,193,422 (1.21 billion). The figures provided by Population Census of India shows that the country represents 17.31% of the world population. In 2011, India's 50% population was below the age of 25. India tops chart in adding more people every year to its Population. Poverty, illiteracy and high fertility rate are some of the reasons for rapid growth in Population of India. The steps taken by Government of India to control Population have little success but there is a long way to go.

The birth rate is higher than the death rate in India. We have been successful in declining the death rates but the same cannot be said for birth rates.