Name: Age Composition and Sex Ratio
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Description: The world population is growing. Did you know, in India, there are more males than females? Find out the importance of age and sex ratios.

Question

Distinguish between population growth and population change.

Accepted Answer

Population Growth:

Population growth means the difference between the birth rate and death rate plus migration per year.

The growth of population is calculated over a period of time, which means a change in the number of people of a country or territory.

The growth of the population is expressed in percentage. The growth rate has declined to $1.93 %$ in the year $2011$ as compared to the year $1991$ at $2.14 %$ .

Population Change:

Population change means the number of people added to the population in one year.

It is expressed in the number of people. The population was $84.64$ crore in $1991$ and increased to $102.87$ crore in the year 2001.

Age structure, sex ratio, literacy rate, occupational structure, etc., are all the composition of population change.

Distinguish between population growth and population change.

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