India: Population
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Kerala, 2. Puducherry, 3. Tamil Nadu, 4. Andhra Pradesh. 105. According to population Census 2011, which of the following States has largest number of females per thousand males?
Natural growth of population is the outcome of which of the following? A. Crude Birth Rate B. Crude Death Rate C. Migration D. Marriages Select the correct answer from the codes given below: Codes:
A gradual change in the manner of population growth occurring over a long period of time is known as:
Select one of the following set of processes leading to stable population structure:
At present India's population growth is passing through the phase of which one of the following?
According to Malthus, which one of the following is the most effective measure of population control?
Malthus argued that the population grows in a ______ progression, while agricultural production/food supply grows in a ______ progression. From the following options, choose the correct answer to fill in the blanks:
T. Malthus propounded one of the most famous theories, called 'The Malthusian Theory' which is related to:
Match list-I with list-II and select the correct answer using code given below the lists : List-I (Theories of Population) List-II (Propounders of Theories) A. Optimum Population Theory 1. Thompson B. Social Maladjustment Theory 2. Malthus C. Demographic Transition Theory 3. Edwin Cannan D. Population-Food Supply Relationship Theory 4. Henry George Code : A B C D
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Which one of the following is not a part of the demographic feature of a population?
In which year was the first regular Census held in India?
When was the Census work done for first time in India?
Consider the following statements : Assertion (A) : The Census of India is carried out every 10 years. Reason (R) : The population of India has largely remained unchanged over the period of ten years. Select the correct answer from the code given below :
Which among the following was used as the motto for Census of India 2011?
The decadal growth rate of population in India has been lowest during :
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? | Decade | Decadal growth rate of population (in percent) | | --- | --- | |
According to the Census of India 2011, the percentage growth of population in the country during the period of 2001-2011 was :
In which of the following Census year in India was recorded the highest percentage change in population?
Which of the following Census years is known as the 'Great Divide' in the demographic history of India?
Assertion (A): India has experienced a phenomenal growth of population since 1951. Reason (R): 1951 is called the demographic divide in India's demographic history. Codes:
The highest average annual exponential growth rate in India's population has been recorded during the decade of :
What is the percentage of females in India's population according to the provisional figures of 2011 Census?
Which of the following is the most populous State in India as per the provisional figures of Census of India 2011?
The population of Uttar Pradesh exceeds the total population of each country of one of the groups given below:
Consider the following statements about Uttar Pradesh: 1. Literacy percentage as per 2001 census is 56.3. 2. The density of population is 690 per square km. 3. The most populous district is Kanpur Nagar. 4. The largest population of the scheduled castes is in district Sitapur. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: Codes:
Consider the following statements: Assertion (A): Uttar Pradesh continues to be the most populous State in the country (Census 2011 Provisional Data). Reason (R): Bihar, West Bengal and Maharashtra respectively are behind it in descending order. Select the correct answer from the code given below:
What is the percentage of India's population that lives in Uttar Pradesh as per provisional figures of 2011 Census?
Which one of the following is the most populous State in India as per Census of 2011?
Which one of the following States of India ranks second (2011) in terms of population and third in terms of area?
More than one-third of India's population is concentrated in the States of :
Among the following States, which one has the minimum population as per latest Census?
Consider the following statements : 1. In terms of area, Chhattisgarh is larger than West Bengal. 2. As per Census 2001, the Population of West Bengal is more than Chhattisgarh. Which is/are correct?
The population of four States in the country in descending order is :
Arrange the following States/Union Territories in descending order of their population, on the basis of Census 2001 :
In India the highest decadal growth rate of population during 1991-2001 was recorded in :
During the last two decades (1981-2001) of the twentieth century the highest population growth (% change) was recorded in :
The highest decadal growth rate of population as per the 1991 Census goes to :
During the inter Census period 1991-2001, which of the following States of India registered the lowest growth of population?
During the period 1991-2001, the decadal growth rate of population (in percentage terms) was lowest in the State of :
Which of the following States recorded a decline in its population in Census 2011?
The decadal growth of population was the lowest in 2011 in the State of :
The decadal growth rate of population during 2001-2011 was maximum in the State of :
The decadal growth rate during 2001-11 of the total population of Uttar Pradesh as per the provisional figures of 2011 Census was :
Consider the following statements as Assertion (A) and Reason (R) : Assertion (A): Uttar Pradesh has the largest concentration of India's population. Reason (R): It is also the most densely populated State of India. Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes:
The population of Uttar Pradesh has been rapidly growing during the last two decades because of :
In terms of population as per 2011 Census, the correct sequence of the following districts of U.P. in descending order is :
Which of the following statements are correct according to the provisional figures of Census of India 2011? Use the code given below to select the correct answer: 1. The lowest population is found in Lakshadweep. 2. Chandigarh has the highest population density. 3. Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest population density. 4. Dadra and Nagar Haveli has the highest decadal growth of population. Codes :
Consider the following two statements and select the correct answer from the code given below : Assertion (A): Kerala has a very high population density. Reason (R): Kerala has a very high rate of literacy.
Population density in India :
As per Census 2011 of India, which among the following States recorded highest density of population?
Which one of the following State has the lowest density of population as per the Census of 2011?
Which one of the following is arranged in correct descending order in terms of population density as per 2011 Census?
Among the BIMARU States of India, the most densely populated state is :
Arrange the following States in the ascending order of their population density : 1. Punjab 2. Odisha 3. Tripura 4. Andhra Pradesh Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
According to the 2001 Census, the correct ascending order of States with minimum population density of India is:
The most sparse State in India in terms of population density is :
In which of the following States, the density of population is less than 100 according to the provisional figures of 2011 Census?
Which of the following Union Territories of India has the lowest population density as per the Census of 2011?
Which of the following States has lowest population density in 2011?
The correct ascending order in relation to the population density of following States according to the Census 2011 is :
Which one of the following statements is true?
Effective literacy rate in India is calculated :
The highest percentage increase in India's literacy has been observed during :
As per the provisional figures of Census 2011, the literacy rate in India is :
According to the provisional figures of Census 2011 the district having the highest literacy rate in India is:
The first fully literate district, outside the State of Kerala, is :
Which one of the following States of India has recorded the maximum increase in literacy rate during 2001-2011?
As per Census 2011, which among the following States recorded highest literacy?
The State which ranks next to Kerala in terms of female literacy in India according to Census 2011 :
As per Census 2011, which of the following States is second in India in its literacy rate and the level of urbanization?
According to Census 2001, which one of the following States has the highest literacy?
Arrange the following States in the descending order of literacy as per Census Report of 2001 and select the correct answer from the codes given at the end: 1. Kerala 2. Manipur 3. Tamil Nadu 4. Himachal Pradesh Codes:
Arrange the following States of India in the descending order of their literacy and select the correct answer using the codes given below: 1. Goa 2. Kerala 3. Maharashtra 4. Mizoram Codes:
Based on the provisional figures of Census 2011 the correct ascending order of the four States of India having the lowest literacy rate is:
As per the 2001 Census, the correct ascending order of the following States in terms of literacy is:
According to the Census 2001, which of the following Union Territories of India had the highest literacy rate?
Arrange the following States in descending order in terms of literacy percentage as per the provisional figures of 2011 Census and select the correct answer from the codes given below: 1. Nagaland 2. Himachal Pradesh 3. Sikkim 4. Tripura Codes:
According to the provisional figures of Census 2011 the gap between male literacy rate and female literacy rate in India is that of :
Which among the following States has the smallest gap in percentage rates between male and female literacy as per 2011 Census?
Which one of the following States has the highest difference between literacy rates of male and female according to the Census 2011?
Which of the following statements, according to 2011 Census Provisional Data, are correct? Use the code given below to select the correct answer : 1. The highest literacy rate among males in the UTs is in Lakshadweep. 2. The highest literacy rate among the males in the States is in Mizoram. 3. The credit for highest literacy rate in the females goes to Lakshadweep among UTs. 4. The State having highest literacy rate among females is Kerala. Code :
Which one among the following States has the highest female literacy rate as per the Census 2001?
The States which have the highest and the lowest female literacy rate as per the provisional figures of 2011 Census are respectively :
Which of the following States had the highest female literacy rate in the year 2001?
As per Census 2001, which of the following States has the lowest female literacy?
As per Census 2011, which among the following Indian States recorded lowest female literacy?
Which of the following States has the lowest female literacy rate, as per the Census 2011 provisional figures?
Among the following Union Territories the female literacy is highest according to Census 2011 :
According to the provisional data of Census 2011, which one of the following States has the highest literacy rate :
Which of the following States of India has lowest literacy rate, as per provisional figures of Census 2011?
Which Union Territory of India has the lowest literacy rate as per the Census of 2011?
Which one of the following States of India has the highest rural literacy rate?
As per Census 2011, the literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh is :
According to 2001 Census, what is the rank of Uttar Pradesh among the States/ Union Territories in literacy rate?
According to Census 2011, the average literacy rate of the following four districts in correct descending order is:
According to 2011 Census figures, which among the following districts in Uttar Pradesh has the lowest female literacy?
According to Census 2011, which of the following statements about Uttar Pradesh are correct? 1. The district having lowest literacy rate is Shravasti. 2. The district having the highest sex-ratio is Deoria. 3. The district having the lowest density of population is Lalitpur. 4. On the basis of Nagar Nigam area population, the most populous city in the State is Kanpur. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Which one of the following statements is correct?
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? | Census Year | Sex Ratio in India | | --- | --- | |
In which of the following Census years sex-ratio of India was 946?
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? | Census Year | | Sex-Ratio in India | | --- | --- | --- | |
According to the provisional figures of 2011 Census male-female ratio in India is :
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of States/UTs having the highest sex-ratio (2011 Census provisional figures) in descending order?
In which State of India, is the female-male ratio more than 1000?
In which one of the following States/Union Territories did the females out-number the males at the time of the last Census?
Which among the following States has highest sex-ratio in 2011?
Which one of the following States of India has sex-ratio (as per 2011 Census) above the national average?
According to Census 2011 provisional data related to persons aged 7 years and above, in which of the following States males outnumber females? 1. Bihar 2. Maharashtra 3. Uttar Pradesh 4. West Bengal Select the Correct answer from the code given below : Code :
According to Census 2011, the State having the lowest sex-ratio is :
Which of the following States is ranked economically at the top but the lowest on the basis of sex-ratio?
Four States mentioned below, which among these had lowest sex-ratio according to the Census 2001?
Which one of the following States/Union Territories has the least number of females per 1000 males as per provisional figures of Census 2011?
In India, the lowest sex-ratio is found in the Union territory of :
In India the highest decline in sex-ratio during 1991-2001 has been observed in :
The highest decadal growth rate in sex-ratio during 1991-2001 has been recorded by :
During 2001 and 2011, the sex-ratio in Uttar Pradesh has improved by :
As per 2011 Census, what is the Female/Male ratio in U.P.?
According to the provisional figures of Census 2011 the district having the highest sex-ratio in India is :
Which among the following factors are responsible for low sex-ratio in India? 1. High Maternity death rate 2. High female child death rate 3. Female foeticide 4. Birth of more male children than female children Code :
The sex-ratio of child population (0-6 years) in India since 1961 has been :
According to the provisional figures of Census 2011 the sex-ratio of children in the age group of 0-6 years in India is :
Which one of the following is correctly matched? State Child sex-ratio (2011)
Which of the following States of India has the highest number of male child (0 – 6 years) per 100 girl child as per 2011 Census?
As per the provisional figures of 2011 Census of India, which one of the following States has the highest child sex-ratio?
On the basis of provisional figures of 2011 Census, arrange the following four States in descending order of their child sex-ratio : 1. Mizoram 2. Meghalaya 3. Haryana 4. Punjab Select the correct answer from the codes given below: Codes :
Examine the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below : (i) The child sex-ratio (0-6 years) of India has declined during 2001-11. (ii) The child sex-ratio in Haryana has increased during 2001-11. (iii) India’s rural sex-ratio is higher than urban sex-ratio. (iv) The male infant mortality rate in India is higher than female infant mortality rate. Codes :
The largest percentage share of the Scheduled Castes population is in :
The State having highest Scheduled Caste population in India is :
In which State of India, the Scheduled Caste population is zero as per Census 2011?
Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below: Assertion (A): There is a very small number of Scheduled Caste population in the North-Eastern States of India. Reason (R): The North-Eastern States of India have very small percentage of area under cultivation.
According to Census 2001, the percentage of the Scheduled Tribes population in India is :
Which one of the following States does not have any tribal population in the scheduled category?
As per the 2011 Census, the correct ascending order of the following States in terms of Scheduled Tribes population is :
In Indian States, the tribal population is largest in :
Which one of the following states has the lowest percentage of Scheduled Tribes population as percentage of its total population according to Census 2011?
When did India adopt the New National Population Policy?
Which one of the following points does not figure in the 10-years Action Plan formulated under the National Population Policy?
Under the National population Policy, 2000, the goal to attain population stagnation has been raised from 2045 to :
What should be Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of a population in order to reach at the replacement level of fertility?
What was the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) by residence of India as per Sample Registration Survey (SRS), 2016?
What is the current Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of India according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) (2015-16)?
As per Census 2011, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of India is:
The total fertility rate in India is highest in:
Assertion (A): The size of population and its composition are responsible for the social change. Reason (R): The fertility of occupational groups in which the wives engage more generally in gainful occupations is lower than that of other groups in the same economic category. Codes :
Which one of the following States has the highest female life expectancy at birth (year 2001-06)?
If the birth and death rates are the same and there is no internal or external migration, then there is no change in the population, this is known as :
Crude death rate in India presently stands at :
Death rate in India in the year 2000, is estimated to be:
Among the following in which State the death rate in the year 2015 was lowest?
Under the Civil Registration System (CRS), it is legally mandatory to register birth and death events within how many days in India?
Which of the following States has started the death Census?
Infant mortality rate in India at present is nearly:
According to the Census 2011, which of the following States had the lowest infant mortality rate?
The lowest infant mortality in urban areas of India is found in :
Which of the following States had less Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) than All India Average IMR in 2011?
The target to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) during Eleventh Plan period was kept at :
According to the UNICEF report, the highest child mortality rate is in :
The Census Projection Report shows that India is one of the youngest nation in the world. In year 2020, the average age of Indians will be of :
According to Census 2011, what percentage of total population in India is under 14 years?
The percentage of the population in the age group 20 years and above out of the total population of India as per 2011 Census is :
According to the provisional figures of Census 2011, what percentage of population is below the age of 35 years in India?
The old age dependency ratio in India (2011) is :
The demographic dividend is :
When population experts refers to the possible 'Demographic Bonus' that may accrue to India around 2016, they are referring to the Phenomenon of :
Which group refers to dependent population in the population pyramid?
The Dependency Ratio in India is declining because :
Role of Human Resources in Economic development, which of the following statement/s is/are correct? 1. Effects of economic development on population growth. 2. Effects of population growth in economic development. Select the correct answer using the code given below : Code :
Which of the following is not an adverse effect of population growth in an economy?
According to recent data, in India, how many disabled people are self-dependent?
Arrange the following religious communities of India in ascending order of their population size and select the correct answer using the codes given below : Religious community : 1. Buddhist 2. Christian 3. Jain 4. Sikh Code :
Which State of India has the largest Muslim population according to the 2001 Census?
According to the 1991 Census, the percentage share of Christians in the total population of the State is highest in :
Statement (A) : Literacy is highest in Kerala. Reason (R) : Kerala has a higher percentage of Christians.
Arrange the following Indian religious communities, in descending order according to their sex-ratio, using the codes given below : 1. Buddhist 2. Jain 3. Christian 4. Muslim <!-- PAGE 1052 --> 1053 Code :
Which community has the lowest sex-ratio in India as disclosed in the additional data pertaining to Census 2011 released recently?
Under the National Literacy Mission, threshold literacy rate of 75 percent was fixed. The target year for this was:
Progressive population-resource areas of India includes: 1. Ganga-Yamuna Doab 2. Coastal Odisha 3. Rajasthan 4. Tamil Nadu Select the correct answer from the code given below : Code :