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Explain about the population composition.

Answer 1

Population composition refers to characteristics such as age, sex, marital status, caste, language, education, occupation, etc.

The study of the composition of the population helps us to understand the social, economic, and demographic structure of the population.

Age Composition:- The population of a county is generally grouped into three broad categories.

1. Children less than 15 years of age (29.5%)
2. The people above 60years (8%)
3. These two categories fall under dependent population (37,5%)
4. Independent population 16 - 59 years (62.5%)

It shows that our country has enormous manpower i.e., the working force.

Sex Ratio:- Sex ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 male population.

This is an important social indicator to measure the extent of equality between males and females in a society at a given time.

According to the 2011 census, the sex ratio of the country is 940 females per 1000 males.

Literacy Rate:- It is an important indicator of the quality of people.

The people who are able to read and write are known as literates. The percentage of literate people to the total population is termed as literacy rate.

As of 2011, India’s literacy rate is 74.04%.

Occupational Structure:- The economically active part of a country’s population is termed as workers.

They are placed under three categories as main workers, marginal workers, and non-workers.

Main workers are those who worked for the major part of the preceding year for at least 6 months or 183 days.

Those who worked less than six months are marginal.

People who have not worked at all comes under non-workers.

In India, as per the 2011 census, 75.23% are main workers and 24.77% of the people belong to marginal workers.