Population refers to a group of organisms of the same species living together. population - population formula - population theories - population explotion - effects - control.

2.  The increase in the number of people
residing in a particular area.
 FORMULA:
› (birth rate + immigration) - (death rate +
emigration)

6.  Natural calamities
 Plagues
 Few health care facilities
 Almost equal birth and death rates
 Less technological development

7.  Improved technological facilities
 Good health care facilities
 Proper and effective communication tools
 Industrialization
 More birth rate in comparison to the death
rate

8.  Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
› An Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects
the Future Improvement of Society (1978)
 Natural resources increase in an arithmetic progression while
human population increases in a geometric progression

9.  A sudden, large increase in the size of a
population

10.  Increase in all kinds of pollution

14.  Disturbances to the natural wildlife habitat
 Low development in developing countries
 Increased spread of diseases
 Poverty
 Increased demand for all resources

15.  Spreading awareness about population
growth
 Proper implementation of community health
program.
 Incentives to the people for sterilization.
 Providing facilities like contraceptives, IUD,
birth control pills, sterilization etc.

16.  National family welfare program (1951)
› Reducing birth rate to reduce population
 National population policy (2000)
› Commitment of the government towards providing reproductive
heath care
 National rural health mission (2005)
› Effective health care for rural people
 Urban family welfare schemes (1983)
› Education about first aid and birth control
 Sterilization beds scheme (1964)
› Hospitals specifically for tubectomy
 Reproductive and child health care program (1997)
› Education and intervention regarding child heath care and STDs