India’s Population Census 2001 is the first in this millennium, and sixth after independence and fourteenth in the series of decennial census starting from 1872. The provisional census results of 2001 give information on the growth rate of population, changes in the sex ratio particularly the child sex ratio, literacy, urbanization, occupational structure of workers and slum demography. India’s population is tripled during the past 50 years (1951-2001) from 361 million to 1027 million, an increase of 666 million. The net increase in India’s population in the last 10 years (1991-2001) was 181 million as compared to 163 million in the previous decade (1981-1991). The increase in India’s population during, 1991-2001 is more than Brazil’s population, the fifth largest country in the world with 170 million population. The decadal population growth rate has marginally declined from 23.9 per cent during 1981-91 to 21.4 per cent during 1991-2001.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G. Ramachandrudu
Prof. G. Ramachandrudu (B. 1950) is a student of Prof. B. Sarveswara Rao and an expert in Quantitative Techniques, Demography, Computer Applications, Human Development and Health Economics. He has published 4 books and 50 research papers and guided 12 Ph.D. and 6 M.Phil scholars. He worked as Honorary Director, Population Research Centre, Andhra University. He was associated with major research projects like National Family Health Survey of USAID, Baseline survey of the Integrate Nutritional and Health Programme of CARE (India), Evaluation study of A.P. First Referral Health systems of the World Bank and Evaluation study of the Visakhapatnam Slum Improvement Project of ODA (UK). He is currently Head of the Department or Economics, Andhra University.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Prasada Rao
M. Prasada Rao (Ph.D., University of SUSSEX, 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Andhra University. He has completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of outstanding scholars Professor Michael Lipton, Dr. Diana Hunt and Late Dr. Pramit Chaudhuri, University of SUSSEX as a Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholar (1991-1994). His research interests are in rural development farm and non-farm activities related studies and employment generation in non-farm sector, poverty elevation in rural areas and policy related matters. He teaches Micro Economic Analysis, International Economics (for M.A. Quantitative Economics students). He is also Honorary Director, A.P. Study Circle, Visakhapatnam.
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