India

							Alice, Olivia and Will
Definition of ANTI
  NATALIST:
    The policy of the
 government to slow the
  population growth by
 attempting to limit the
    number of births
                     INDIA
Background information

   India has had a sudden fall in death rate due to
    improvements in food supply, hygiene and
    medical care
   High birth rate means there has been a dramatic
    increase in population
   Contraceptives and family planning were
    available to families
   In 1972, abortions were allowed by law and
    sterilization programmes became widespread
            INDIA’S POPULATION
                STATISTICS
   The population in India at 0:00 hours in the 1st of March
    stood at 1,027,015,247 persons, crossing the one billion
    mark
   Between 1991 and 2001, the population grew by 21.34 %
   Males = 531, 277, 078
    Females = 495, 738, 169
   Although India only occupies 2.4% of the world’s land area,
    it supports 15% of the world’s population
   Almost 40% of Indians are younger than 15
   The magnitude of the annual increase in population can be
    seen in the fact that India adds almost the total population
    of Australia every year
   Between 1947 and 1991, India’s population more than
    doubled
   In 1901, India counted 77 persons per sq km
   In 1981, there was 216 persons per sq km
                  INDIA’S FACTS
   At the beginning on the century, endemic disease, periodic
    epidemics and families kept the death rate high…enough to
    balance out the high birth rate
   Between 1911 and 1920, the birth and death rates were
    virtually equal; about 48 births and 48 deaths per 1000
   By the mid 1990s, the estimated birth rate had fallen to 28
    per 1000
   The estimated death rate had fallen to 10 per 1000
   The future configuration of India’s population depends on
    what happens to the birth rate
   Even the most optimistic projections do not suggest that
    the birth rate could drop below 20 per 1000
      POPULATION INCREASE
   In 1981, the population census showed that there were 12
    million more people than the government thought
   India is a democracy so laws could not be introduced to
    limit the number of babies born
   There is a nation wide campaign persuading people to have
    less babies
   Contraception, such as the pill and the coil are being used
    to limit birth rates
              THE POLICY
   The anti natalist policy was unpopular and ended
    in 1977
   In 1978, the legal age of marriage was raised
    from 15 to 18 but this was ignored
   Only 25% of women use contraception
   In 1952, India was the first country in the world
    to launch the national programme, emphasising
    family planning to the extent necessary to reduce
    birth rate to stable
   India launched its policy through mass media e.g.
    radio and TV ads
    EFFECTS OF THE POLICY
 To solve the population problems, the
  Indian government must quickly
  administer population regulations so that
  couples have on average two children
 The governments persuasive campaign for
  two child families and India’s obsession
  with having sons has lad to an increase in
  woman abortion female foetuses so make
  sure they have a boy, if not two
INDIA V CHINA
   POPULATION PROJECTIONS
      FOR INDIA (millions)
March          March           March           March
1991           2001            2011            2016
846.3          1012.4          1178.9          1263.5
India’s demographic achievement due to the policy
• Reduced crude birth rate form 40.8 in 1951, to 26.4 in
1998
• Quadrupled the couple protection rate
• Reduced crude death rate
• Achieved nearly universal awareness of the need for family
planning
• Halved infant mortality rate from 146 per 1000 in 1951, to
72 per 1000 live births in 1998
POPULATION DENSITY, by Will –
      well researched
PROPAGANDA POSTERS
          CONCLUSION
 Due  to the policy, birth rate has
  declined but there is still natural
  increase
 Infant mortality has been
  reduced as has death rate,
  therefore there is still a slight
  increase in the population