CBSE Questions for Class 9 Geography Population Quiz 2 - MCQExams.com

• "Demography" is the name for the social science which concerns itself with studying populations. 
  
• Specifically, it is the science of the social statistics of populations, such as births, deaths, diseases and marriages.
  
•  Demography encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial or temporal changes in them in response tobirth,migration,ageing and death.
  
•  Based on the demographic research of the earth, earth's population up to the year 2050 and 2100 can be estimated by demographers. Demographics are quantifiable characteristics of a given population.
  

• The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times, As of 2011. It has been conducted every 10 years, beginning in 1872. 
  
• 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.
  
• TheUnited Nations  defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years.
  

• India’s population as on 1 March 2001 stood at 1,028 million (532.1 million males and 496.4 million females).
  
• As per Census 2011, India's population stood at 1,21,05,69,573.
  
• India accounts for a meagre 2.4 per cent of the world surface area of 135.79 million sq km. Yet, it supports and sustains a whopping 17.5 per cent of the world population.
  

• Rajasthan is India's largest state by area. It is located on the north-western side of the country,
  
• The northwestern portion of Rajasthan is generally sandy and dry.
  
• The Thar Desert is thinly populated.
  
• According to the final results of the 2011 census of India  Rajasthan has a total population of 68,548,437.
  

• Sex Ratio in Kerala is 1084 i.e. for each 1000 male, which is below national average of 940 as per census 2011. 
  
• In 2001, the sex ratio of female was 1058 per 1000 males in Kerala.
  

• Census means the official process of counting the number of people in a country, city, or town and collecting information .
  
• An official periodic count of a population including such information as sex, age, occupation, etc.
  

According to Late expanding stage of population cycle, Death rate declines further and birth rate begins to fall. Yet there is an increase in population since birth exceeds deaths. India appears to have entered this stage.

Therefore in this stage India is classified on the basis of its demographic characteristics.