Question

What are the major factors responsible for population explosion?

Answer 1

• High Birth Rate : Some of the socio-cultural causes responsible for high birth rate in India. Marriage is also a religious duty and practice of early marriage system is still now in India. More than 80% of girls are married during the fertile period of 15 to 20 years of age and give birth a number of children.
• Poverty : 40% of the populations in India are below the poverty line and they consider children as their asset and they earn at a very low age and bring wages. It helps in the rapid population growth.
• Illiteracy : In India 39.4 percent of women is literate and 63.9 percent of men are literate. So illiteracy combined with poverty, ignorance and superstitions, the people do not know the use of contraceptives help in the rapid population growth.
• Lack of birth control devices : The birth control devices are not sufficient and not given in the right time causes of decline death rate.

• Maternal and Child Health Service : Care has taken for the health of the pregnant and nursing mothers, new born babies, and arrangement have been made for the safe delivery of the babies and so death rate has reduced. The death rate of pregnant women and new born babies has declined.