How has India's population increased since 1900?

Long ago when I asked a person aged at 87 years as to what differences he found since his childhood till now in our country, he elaborated, among others, that no. read more

In 1921, the population of India was only 25.1 crores which increased to 84.4 crores in 1991. The decadal growth rate of population (during 1981-91) was 24 percent and the annual average growth rate was 2.1 per cent. read more

During 1921-51, the population of India increased from 251 million to 361 million (Table 10.2). This duration of 30 years has thus registered a growth of 47.3 per cent. Therefore, this period is called the period of steady growth rate. read more