Population Geography

Statement 1 is correct: Infant mortality rate (as per the 2011 census):
Total: 46.07 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 44.71 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 47.59 deaths/1,000 live births
Statement 2 is incorrect: The term infant is typically applied to young children between the age of 1 month and 12 months; however, definitions may vary between birth and 3 years of age. But in no case it is above the age of three years.

Statement 1 is correct: When India gained independence from the United Kingdom sixty years ago, the country's population was a mere 350 million. Since 1947, the population of India has more than tripled.
Statement 2 is also correct: India is currently home to about 1.21 billion people, representing a full 17% of the earth's population. India's 2011 census showed that the country's population had grown by 181 million people in the prior decade.

The respective literacy rates of the states given are:C. Kerala - 93.9
D. Lakshadweep - 92.3
B. Mizoram - 91.6
A. Goa - 87.4

Statement 1 is correct: With 1,210,000,000 (1.21 billion) people, India is currently the world's second largest country. India crossed the one billion mark in the year 2000, one year after the world's population crossed the six billion threshold.
Statement 2 is incorrect: According to a survey by the United Nation Human Resource Council, India's population is expected to surpass the population of China, currently the most populous country in the world, by 2030. At that time, India is expected to have a population of more than 1.53 billion while China's population is forecast to be at its peak of 1.46 billion (and will begin to drop in subsequent years).

Statement 1 is correct: India is the first country to officially launch a population control programme way back in 1952.
Statement 2 is also correct: In 1983, the goal of the country's National Health Policy was to have a replacement value total fertility rate of 2.1 by the year 2000. However, that did not occur. Later, the National Population Policy 2000 revised the deadline to 2010.

Statement 1 is correct: Kerala and Puducherry are only two places in India where total female population is more than the male population. Other states like Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka are also showing an increase in their sex ratio, but they have negative sex ratio, i.e. more males than females.
Statement 2 is incorrect: Haryana has the lowest sex ratio of 877 females per 1000 males.

Statement 1 is correct.
Statement 2 is incorrect.

There is only one instance of a caste-count in post-independence India. It was conducted in Kerala in 1968 by the Communist government under E. M. S. Namboodiripad to assess the social and economic backwardness of various lower castes. The census was termed asa Socio-Economic Survey of 1968 and the results were published in the Gazetteer of Kerala, 1971.

Statement 1 is correct: More than 50% of India's population is below the age of 25 and over 65% below the age of 35.
Statement 2 is incorrect: The total urban population in the country as per Census 2011 is more than 377 million constituting 31.16% of the total population. It means that the portion of village population in India is less than 70%.

Statement 1 is correct: According to the Census of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, the decade of 2001 to 2011 is the 1^st decade in post-independence India, which added the least number of people to the country's population. The percentage of decadal growth in the nation, for the first time, showed a decrease by 3.90 % since, the present Census of India 2011 has registered the rate to be 17.64 % from the rate of 21.54 % in the earlier Census conducted in the year 2001.
Statement 2 is also correct: The state of Bihar showed the highest decadal growth rate (25.10%) while the state of Nagaland registered the lowest growth rate (- 0.50%) in between the years 2001 to 2011.

Statement 1 is correct: According to Census 2011, there are more than 475 urban agglomerates (UAs) in India.
Statement 2 is also correct: The growth rate of population in mega cities has slowed down considerably during the last decade. Greater Mumbai UA, which had witnessed 30.47% growth in population during 1991-2001 recorded 12.05% during 2001-2011. Similarly the population growth rate of Delhi UA (from 52.24% to 26.69% in 2001-2011) and that of Kolkata UA (from 19.60% to 6.87% in 2001-2011) have also slowed down considerably.

Information regarding Census 2011:
Shri C. Chandramouli was the Registrar General and Commissioner of the 2011 Indian census.
Census data was collected in 16 languages and training manual was prepared in 18 languages.
House listing schedule contained 35 questions.
Population enumeration schedule contained 29 questions.
National Population Register Household schedule contained 9 questions.

The respective density of population of the given states/union territories isC. Puducherry - 2598 
A. Lakshadweep - 2013
D. Bihar - 1102
B. West Bengal - 1030
 

The respective sex ratios (as per data of Census 2011) of the given states/union territories are
C. Daman and Diu - 618
D. Dadar and Nagar Haveli - 775
A. Haryana - 877
B. Punjab - 893
 

Here is a list of some of the tribes in India and the areas they inhabit.