India has a current population of over 1.4 billion people, making it the second most populous country globally. While a larger population can provide economic benefits like increased consumers and labor, it can also strain resources and the environment. Issues around overexploitation of natural resources, pollution, poverty, and lack of access to facilities plague India as its population continues to rapidly grow. The government has implemented policies aimed at increasing access to family planning services to help address the problems caused by unchecked population expansion.

1. population: a boon or
bane

2. Population
A population is the complete set group of individuals,
whether that group comprises a nation

3. Population in India
• The current population of India is 1,413,681,182 as of
Wednesday, December 28, 2022, based on Worldometer
elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
• India’s 2020 population is estimated at 1,380,004,385 people at
mid-year according to UN data.
• India’s population is equivalent to 17.7% of the total world
population.
•India ranks number 2 in the list of countries (and dependencies)
by population.

4. Boon
 Population growth provides us with a more number of working
population, which is needed nowadays for speed progress.
 Greater population means more consumers for industries. So many
industries focus on countries with large populations to sell their
products.
 Larger population provides a great manpower.
 Population explosion also provides us with people of multiple talents
in the fields such as sports, music, art etc.
 If the number of working population is greater than kids and elders,
they can support them. This will reduce the dependency rate.

5. Bane
• The increase in population puts a pressure on the several resources that we have
• Rapid population explosion has led to the over exploitation of the natural resources
and degradation of environment.
• Environment degradation has resulted in many natural calamities that rarely
happened earlier.
• For a huge population, it becomes more difficult to provide the facilities so basic
such as water, health etc.
• Poverty is one of the reasons why people couldn’t get enough resources for
themselves.
• When the population is large, there are employment issues
• A large population makes efficient management a burdensome task

6. Effect of population on
economy
Population growth affects many aspects of society, including the
overall quality of life. One of the key ways it does this is by causing
prices of important goods and services to rise, thus causing hardship
for the poorest sections of the population.

7. Problems due to rise in
population
1. Food Problem
2. Falling Economic Standards
3. Social Problems
4. Health Problems

8. Government policies
Mission Parivar Vikas- The Government has
launched Mission Parivar Vikas for
substantially increase access to
contraceptives and family planning services

9. Future scope
1. Human population growth impacts the Earth system in a variety of
ways, including: Increasing the extraction of resources from the
environment.
2. Rapid population growth makes it more difficult for low-income and
lower-middle-income countries to afford the increase in public
expenditures on a per capita basis that is needed to eradicate
poverty, end hunger and malnutrition,

10. Conclusion
Our country’s ever-growing population is a bane more
than a boon as it can devastate our nation and can
cause imbalance in the world.
It could lead to instability of world economics and
world peace as the population of India is the second
highest in the world.