Census officials say India is home to 17% of the world’s population as growth rate in the country inhabited by 1.21 billion people starts to slow down.
The south Asian country added 181 million people in the past decade and will overtake China (1.34 billion) by 2030. The population size almost equals that of all the people living in the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. However, the census showed growth had slowed down from 21.5 to 17.6 per cent in the last decade. The last time this happened was in 1921.
The country’s proportion of girls has also fallen, which was "a matter of grave concern". A gender breakdown among children showed 914 girls being born or surviving for every 1 000 boys under the age of six.
The population continues to favour sons over daughters mostly because of the costs involved in marrying off their daughters and also because sons are seen as future breadwinners.
India’s census, the 15th since 1872, was a mammoth task spread over a year. It involved 2.7million census-takers who surveyed some 300 million homes.
The south Asian country added 181 million people in the past decade and will overtake China (1.34 billion) by 2030. The population size almost equals that of all the people living in the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. However, the census showed growth had slowed down from 21.5 to 17.6 per cent in the last decade. The last time this happened was in 1921.
The country’s proportion of girls has also fallen, which was "a matter of grave concern". A gender breakdown among children showed 914 girls being born or surviving for every 1 000 boys under the age of six.
The population continues to favour sons over daughters mostly because of the costs involved in marrying off their daughters and also because sons are seen as future breadwinners.
India’s census, the 15th since 1872, was a mammoth task spread over a year. It involved 2.7million census-takers who surveyed some 300 million homes.
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