India has faced challenges with a rapidly growing population that has more than doubled since 1960. The government implemented official family planning programs in the 1950s to curb population growth, promoting sterilization over other contraceptive education and applying coercive policies. While India's population growth rate is decreasing, it is still projected to overtake China as the most populated country by 2030 if changes are not made to make family planning policies more effective and voluntary.

1. Family
Planning In
India

2. Case Study: India
• High proportion of its population
in agriculture (62%)
• Many areas are classified as rural
& remote
• Avg income: low (US$290 per
capita)
• Hi BR: 31/1000
• Fertility rate=4
• Population has doubled from
431,463 000 in 1960 to 1, 014,003
800 in 2000
• It may overtake China in the
next half century

3. • Current Population of India in
2012 -1,220,200,000 (1.22 billion)
• Total Male Population in India -
628,800,000 (628.8 million)
• Total Female Population in India -
591,400,000 (591.4 million) Sex
• Ratio 940 females per 1,000 males
• Age structure 0 to 25 years -
50% of India's current population
• Currently, there are about 51
births in India in a minute.

4. • Population of India in 1947 - 350 million
• India's Population in 2001 - 1.02 billion
• India's Population in 2011 - 1.21 billion
• Although, the crown of the world's
most populous country is on China's
head for decades,
• …India is all set to take the numero uno
position by 2030.
• With the population growth rate at
1.58%, India is predicted to have more
than 1.53 billion people by the end of
2030.

5. Reasons to control population:
• A quickly regenerating population
exacerbates shortages of food and
water
• the nation’s long-term growth will be
hampered by a less healthy therefore
less productive work force,
• greater demand for natural resource
consumption,
• a higher level of environmental
degradation resulting from such
consumption.

6. Realizing these consequences...
• Since 1950s - India has been
implementing official family planning
programs to curb population growth.
• However, India’s population has more
than doubled since those days (from
431,463,000 in 1960 to 1,014,003,800
in 2000)
• current projections predict that India
has a good chance of overtaking China
as the most populated country in the
world within the next half century.

8. India’s rate of population growth is actually decreasing...but..

9. • In 1991 India’s annual population growth rate was
2.15% and by 1997
• this figure dropped to 1.7%, which indicates that
India is indeed making some progress.
• While this may be true, most evidence would
suggest that the country’s policies have been
largely ineffective
• changes must be made to prevent further
problems resulting from overpopulation.

11. So where did India’s efforts fall short?
• Education regarding temporary methods of contraception was
neglected in favor of encouraging sterilization.
• Government agencies would have sterilization quotas to fill among
the employees, and the inability to meet them was sometimes met
with withheld salaries.
• Workers were often rewarded with a radio or television if they
successfully convinced enough people to opt for the surgery.
• At its worst, India’s policy included declaring a state of
emergency in 1976 and implementing forced sterilization in poor
neighborhoods.
• When applying for government loans, or jobs people were told
that their chances of receiving such aids would be increased if
they could produce a certificate of sterilization.

12. India - Family Planning
• Efforts at population control
-in the end successful.
• Some states of India eg
Kerala barely produce
enough growth to maintain
the existing population
levels.
• India tried unsuccessfully in
the 70s to use compulsory
sterilisation, one of the
causes for Mrs Gandhi's
defeat at the polls in 1977.

13. • Source:
http://www.colby.edu/personal/t/thtieten/Fa
mplan.htm