The decades of 1951-81 are referred to as the period of population explosion in India because of a rapid fall in death rate and high birth rate. The main causes of this explosion are as follows:
Widening Gap between Birth and Death Rates The average annual birth rate was 42 per thousand population but it came down to 28.7 per thousand in 1981. This shows that the birth rate has shown small decline and death rate has gone down rather sharply. This widening gap has increased our population rapidly.
Low Age of Marriage Child marriage has been very common in our country. As per census report, 72% marriage in India was performed before 15 and 34% before 10 years of age. The mean age at marriage of females increased from 15.6 in 1951 to 17.6 in 1981.
High Illiteracy During this period (1951-81), the overall literacy rate was very low. Due to this, they would be more orthodox, illogical and religious minded.
Religious Attitude towards Family Planning The religiously orthodox and conservative people are against the use of family planning measures. The women disfavoured family planning on the plea that they cannot go against the wishes of God.
Other Causes Joint family system and lack of responsibility of young couples in these families to bring up their children and lack of recreational facilities, and lack of information or wrong information about the adverse effects of vasectomy, tubectomy are some other causes of the rapid growth of population.
Yogita Ingle 3 years, 11 months ago
The decades of 1951-81 are referred to as the period of population explosion in India because of a rapid fall in death rate and high birth rate. The main causes of this explosion are as follows:
Widening Gap between Birth and Death Rates The average annual birth rate was 42 per thousand population but it came down to 28.7 per thousand in 1981. This shows that the birth rate has shown small decline and death rate has gone down rather sharply. This widening gap has increased our population rapidly.
Low Age of Marriage Child marriage has been very common in our country. As per census report, 72% marriage in India was performed before 15 and 34% before 10 years of age. The mean age at marriage of females increased from 15.6 in 1951 to 17.6 in 1981.
High Illiteracy During this period (1951-81), the overall literacy rate was very low. Due to this, they would be more orthodox, illogical and religious minded.
Religious Attitude towards Family Planning The religiously orthodox and conservative people are against the use of family planning measures. The women disfavoured family planning on the plea that they cannot go against the wishes of God.
Other Causes Joint family system and lack of responsibility of young couples in these families to bring up their children and lack of recreational facilities, and lack of information or wrong information about the adverse effects of vasectomy, tubectomy are some other causes of the rapid growth of population.
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