India's overpopulation

The Government of India has been aware of the problems caused by the rapid growth of India´s population during the last decade. India´s population has grown in the last 50 years more than 800 million, which means that India represents now a days a 17,99% of the worlds population,(being 2,2% of the world surface) that implies that 1 person out of 6 in the world comes from India.

Right now India is the second country most populous of the world (1.252 million people, in 2013) just after China (1.357 million people, in 2013). Experts say that India will overtake China around 2025, and with this growth rate India will have to take actions on how to prevent this growth and try to find out how to solve the problems caused.

The main reason leading to over population in India are:

1- The high birth rate. India has a very high birth rate compared to almost every country in the world. In fact every Indian women gets around 3 children compared to a 1 child western Europe and USA. Another interesting fact about India´s population is that nearly a third of it is under the age of 14. That is good for the country because India is a young country in that terms, but as always, it also has
disadvantages.

This causes are interrelated to various social issues as:

• Early marriage


• Illegal migration


• Poverty and illiteracy

The effects are:

• Unemployment


• Manpower utilisation


• Resource utilisation


• And more...