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Summary
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The people are important to develop the economy and the society. The
people make and use resources and are themselves resources with varying quality.
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‘Resources’, ‘calamities’, and ‘disasters’
are all meaningful only in relation to human beings.
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Their numbers, distribution, growth, and characteristics or qualities provide th
e basic background for understanding and appreciating all aspects of the environment.
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Human beings are
producers and consumers of the earth’s resources.
Therefore, it is important to know how many people are there in a country, where they live, how and why their numbers are increasing, and what are their characteristics.
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India’s population as on March 2011 stood a
t 1,210.6 million, which accounts for 17.5 percent of the world’s population.
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These 1.21 billion people are
unevenly distributed over our country’s
vast area of 3.28 million square km, which accounts for 2.4 percent of the world’s area.
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The
population is a dynamic phenomenon. T
he numbers, distribution, and composition of the population are constantly changing.
- This is the influence of the interaction of the three processes, namely — births, deaths, and migrations.
