An Analysis of Demographic Features in India

Abstract

Demographic features of a country simply mean the characteristics of populations like composition, growth, size, diversity, quality of population etc. It states the characteristics of population constitute the human resources of a country. The population is vital from the point of economic growth and resources of an economy. Because, it affects the society as well as the economy by many ways. Generally population is a positive factor regarding economic growth. Because it is the source of human resource, labour force, market demand etc. But it works in positive direction up to a limit. After crossing this limit it becomes evil for a country. Because, heavy
population pressure creates various socio-economic problems in a country. Moreover,
it creates additional burden to the state, since a huge amount of resource has to be
diverted for take care of this growing population.