DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN RURAL POPULATION: A CASE STUDY OF MAHABALESHWAR TALUKA

Download or read book DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN RURAL POPULATION: A CASE STUDY OF MAHABALESHWAR TALUKA written by Dr. Shrikant Tukaram Ghadge and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the population is one of the important aspects of research on human development. ‘Population Geography’ is one of the newly developed branches of Human Geography. Population means a set of humans in a given area and it is one of the dominant factors which is responsible for the development of any country or region because man is the utilizer of the physical earth and he is also the creator of the cultural earth. Simply, Population Geography means the study of the population and its characteristics. Population Geography studies Population growth, Distribution, Density, Literacy rate, Sex composition and Age structure, Health, Mortality, Morbidity, Migration, Fertility and reproductivity etc. India is the most populous country in the world. Our country covers only 2.4 percent of the land area of the world, whereas it is the home of more than 17.7 percent of the world’s population.