What is the total population in India?

Going at the current rate, will the population of India be so high in 2050, that there would be a total scarcity of resources and a complete anarchy will prevail?

  • Population in India is increasing at a tremendous pace. It has such a lot of pressure on the existing resources. Our roads, schools, buses,trains,hospitals...all are over crowded. There is a long queue just about everywhere. When the population increases to such an extend that it can longer sustain, is not anarchy the next stage? Has India already going in that direction?

  • Answer:

    No. Population is also a resource.

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ctually India's population would peak in the next decade and then fall, leading to a steady population. The population may rise if life expectancy increases from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties but considering the rate at which fertility is dropping and how life expectancy is not rising due to lack of accessibility to healthcare and lack of awareness, population will probably fall. The fertility rate is 2.3, taking into account India's infant mortality/childhood mortality it barely reaches demographic replacement. A young population is a resource in terms of "demographic dividend". The reason school, hospitals,buses are crowded is because demand outstrips supply. This is because people are traveling more and have learned the value of education and healthcare. 50 years ago in most small towns there was no form of daily, public transportation, no hospitals and no colleges. Places like the local primary school barely covered the local children but people still didn't demand any services. They didn't view education as a road to economic self-sufficiency not to mention social customs and rules that prevented education and medicines for diseases such as cancer especially for women. So whereas earlier schools were shutting down because of local antipathy, now they are being demanded. I think you should refer to the debate in the 1970s about a book "Population Explosion" between Paul Samuelson and the author. The same thing was predicted for Europe due to their resource consumption by the year 2000 everyone would be starving and anarchy would prevail.Samuelson bet that any five resources the author picked that would expire and lead to deterioration would be adapted or not be an issue in the future. He was right. For e.g. Zinc which was expected to become scarce and was necessary for electric transmission was replaced by fiber optic cables. There is going to be no anarchy. As growth happens, education and health services will rise.Population will peter out,services offered will rise and by the time the millenials age, an aging population would be an issue with people encouraging reproduction like in Japan.

Srishti Kapoor

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