INDIA AND CHINA POPULATION GROWTH

AUTHOR – RUPIKA GOUNDLA, STUDENT AT O.P JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, SONIPAT

BEST CITATION – RUPIKA GOUNDLA, INDIA AND CHINA POPULATION GROWTH, ILE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL STUDIES (ILE JPS), 1 (1) of 2023, Pg. 12-16, APIS – 3920 – 0054 | ISBN – 978-81-964391-3-2

Abstract

Increased demand for daily life necessities like food, housing, health, water and increased risk for large-scale disasters like covid-19 pandemic and environmental degradation is just some of the effects caused by overpopulation. Overpopulation also leads to many economic problems like huge unemployment which further leads to increased inequalities in income distribution. The rapid growth of population is a huge hinderance to the economic and social development of a country. The factors like better health facilities lead to decrease in mortality rates has contributed to the increased population growth. Overpopulation has created a lot of pressure on the availability of natural resources leading to the over extraction of these resources which is further leading to the degradation of the natural resources. It created unemployment further leading to poverty and due to increased migration to urban areas, it led to slums with congested areas.  In this paper, the primary objective to compare the most rapidly growing countries in population which are India and China through three factors contributing to this population growth which are age structure, fertility rates and regional disparities. As India and China are the only countries in the world which have a population of more than one billion, they are taken into consideration to compare with age diversity and fertility rates statistics.  The dynamics of the age structure, fertility rates and reginal differences are examined throughout the article.

Keywords – India, China, Fertility Rates, Age-Structure, Regional Differences