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Question
Answer the following question.
Define the density of the population. What is India’s density of population as per the 2011 census?
Solution
Density of the population is a ratio of the total population to the total area of the country or a part of it.
Density of population = `" Total population"/"Total area"`
India’s density of population as per the 2011 census is 382 persons per sq. km.
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