CBSE Questions for Class 9 Geography Population Quiz 1 - MCQExams.com

Sex ratio is the number of females present per 1000 males in an area. Sex ratio of India, according 2011 census, is 940 females per 1000 males. It is low in India because of age-old traditions which are unfavourable to women.

• The number of people living per unit of an area (e.g. per square mile).
  
• To calculate the population density, you will divide the population by the size of the area. Thus, Population Density = Number of People/Land Area.
  
• The unit of land area should be square miles or square kilometers. You can use square feet or meters if you are finding the density of a smallish space.

• The population density of India in 2001 was 324 persons per square kilometer.
  
• The census is a useful tool to assess the changing patterns in various spheres in the life of people of the country. 

• The population density of India has gone up to 382 persons per square kilometre in 2011 from 325 persons per square kilometre in 2001.
  
•  The rate of increase in density of India has exhibited a sharp decline during 20012011 (17.5 per cent) as compared to 19912001 (21.7 per cent).
  
• On an average, 57 more people inhabit every square kilometer in the country as compared to a decade ago.
  

•  A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
  
• It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.
  
• General: Official counting of a region's or nation's people and compilation of economic, social and other data, usually for formulation of development policies and plans and demarcating constituencies for elections.
  
•  Statistics: Survey of an entire population, as opposed to a sample survey.
  

• The population, which accounts for world's 17.5 per cent population, comprises 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females, said a provisional 2011 Census report. 
  
• India Census Reveals 17 Percent Of World Population Is Indian.
  

•  According to the Census 2001, as many as 560,687,797 persons in the country are literate. Of these 336,533,716 are males and 224, 154,081 are females.
  
•  While the overall literacy rate works out to be 64.8 %, the male literacy rate is 75.3% and that for females is 53.7%, showing a gap of 21.6 percentage points between the sexes at the national level. The gap is more in the rural areas.
  
• Kerala, Mizoram, Lakshadweep, Goa and Chandigarh occupy the top five positions in literacy .
  
•     The literacy rates for rural population are the highest in Kerala, followed by Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Goa, and Delhi. Fourteen (14) States / Uts have recorded less than 60 percent rural Literacy rate.
  

• 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 records of population density 2011 of India state that the density 2011 has increased from a figure of 324 to that of 382 per square kilometer. Bihar is the most thickly populated state (1106 persons/sq km.) followed by west bengal-1028 and Kerala 860.
  

• The age-group, which contributes to the growth of the national income, is 15-59 (in some cases the upper limit is more), which is also called working age).
  
• The working age population is defined as those aged 15 to 64. The basic indicator for employment is the proportion of the working age population aged 15-64 who are employed. 
  
• The age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents (people younger than 15 or older than 64) to the working-age population. 
  
• This indicator is measured as a percentage of population.

• Sex ratio is used to describe the number of females per 1000 of males. In the Population Census of 2011 it was revealed that the population ratio in India 2011 is 943 females per 1000 of males.
  
•  The Sex Ratio 2011 shows an upward trend from the census 2001 data. ... 1, Kerala, 1084, 964, 1058, 960.
  
• As per details from Census 2011, Kerala has population of 3.34 Crores, an increase from figure of 3.18 Crore in 2001 census. Total population of Kerala as per 2011 census is 33,406,061 of which male and female are 16,027,412 and 17,378,649 respectively. In 2001, total population was 31,841,374 in which males were 15,468,614 while females were 16,372,760. 
  

•  India has the second largest population in the world with 1,231,990,000 (over than 1.2 billion)
  
•  India’s population is 17.3% of the entire world population.
  
•  India and China together consist of 26.4% of the total human population.
  

•  Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually quoted per square kilometer or square mile (which may include or exclude, for example, areas of water or glaciers). Commonly this may be calculated for a county, city, country, another territory, or the entire world.
  
• Population density can apply to any size area, from a building to a nation.
  
•  If an area is densely populated, that means a larger number of people live in a smaller amount of space.
  
•  If an area is sparsely populated, however, a smaller number of people live in a larger land area.
  

•  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.

• According to Census 2011, Kerala has the highest total literacy rate and female literacy rate.
  
• The literacy rates of different Indian states in 2001 and 2011. India's literacy rate is at 74.04%.
  
• Kerala is the most literate state in India, with 93.91% literacy.
  
•  Bihar is the least literate state in India, with a literacy of 63.82%.
  

• To calculate the population density, you will divide the population by the size of the area. Thus, Population Density = Number of People/Land Area.
  
•  The unit of land area should be square miles or square kilometers. You can use square feet or meters if you are finding the density of a smallish space.
  
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• Therefore 50 lakh divided by 25000sq km equal to 200 persons per sq.km