POVERTY — Economics STD 12 Commerce — Question

Demographic factors:
After independence and during the planning period India’s economy grew rapidly. With this India also made rapid increase in the health services.

• Owing to all these factors, India’s death -rate declined but birth-rate did not reduce. This led to population explosion.
• Due to high population the per capita income did not increase much. Low per capita income and big size of families resulted in poor quality of life.
• There were insufficient employment opportunities for the fast growing population. As a result, people were forced to work in low wages and this made them poorer.