Effects of Overpopulation in India

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary 1
Introduction 2
Effects of overpopulation in India 3
Who are responsible for overpopulation in India 4
Steps to control rapid population growth in India 5
Conclusion...................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................8

1. Executive summary
Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of people has exceeded or is
almost exceeding the carrying capacity of certain earth. Quite a number of issues have been
known to cause over population such as reduced mortality rate and availability if better medical
facilities among others.
This paper is going to examine the issue of sustainability in India and its implications on
sustainability. It's an empirical study that seeks to determine how sustainability can be affected
by the issue of overpopulation.

2. Introduction
India is the world’s second most populated in the world. According to the Indian census that was
carried out in 211, the population of Indian was about 1200000000. This means that Indian has
crossed the 1 billion mark in terms of its population. Research and other studies have also
projected that India will be the most populated country in the world by 2025. Despite the many
efforts by the Indian government to reduce the fertility rate over the past ten years, statistics
indicate that a significant stabilization and/or a balance will be visible only by 2050 (Atkin, 2013
p.98).
In addition the paper discusses the issue of sustainable development is direct to the issue of
population growth and some of its immediate effects such as poverty and environmental
degradation. India's rapid population growth is a really great threat to the ecological system not
only itself but also other countries across the globe (Barnett, Lee, Lin, 2013 p.75). The
magnitude of population growth has brought about some really great concern. Statistics indicate
that India occupies about 2.4% of the global area and its population is about 16% of the world’s
total population. Its population has doubled since 1994 and its statistics indicate that there are
really minimal chances for it to stabilize after 2025 (Bhowmik et al, 2013 p.91).
In order to understand the issue of sustainability in regard to the issue of overpopulation in India,
it is best that we first get to understand the concept of sustainability in details. Sustainability is a
process of maintaining a state of balance in the use of resources and in that way maintaining an
ecological balance. The issue of overpopulation is a threat to sustainability as an increasing
population tends to put pressure on the available resources thereby causing as a state on no
balance in the ecological system (Chatterjee et al, 2013 p.23).