The world population in 1830 was estimated to be 1000 million. In a century i. e by 1930 it doubled itself to 2000 million. But in the next 30 years i.e. by 1960 it was 3000 million and within 14 years i.e. in 1974 it rose to 3700 million.

In 1991 i.e. in 17 years it doubled to 5400 million. In 1998 it stood at 5929.8m. It will pass 6 billion in 1999.Accordind to a US census Bureau report the world census report the world population may rise by 52% in the next 28 years. It is expected to be 8200 million in 2020. The doubling process would be restrained by the Zero Growth efforts being practiced in most of the developed countries. Notwithstanding all the efforts being made in the developing countries ,China is expected to increase her population from 1,151.5 million in 1991 to 1,541 million in 2020 while India during the same period is expected to increase from 869.5 million to 1,317 million(The telecast of Doordarshan has been showing the population of India as more than 99 million in 1999). It was 975.8m in 1998. Anyway in 2020 of every 3.5 persons in the world one would be a Chinese and of every four one would be an Indian.

If there are no starvation deaths in India for many years it does not mean that we have made any breakthrough in the population problem. The absence of starvation deaths is mainly due to the richness of natural resources which are increasingly been depleted. Expansion of industrialization in urban areas has created more jobs for laborers who migrate from scarcity his rural areas . Better farming too has increased the yield of food grains. A startling reason is that near about 70 million tribes do not consume food grains of any type and live on hunting, fish or on roots, leaves, fruits and seeds of forest plants and trees. But all this would not sustain the population for long. Forests are being cut. More sophisticated process in industries reduces the number of unskilled workers. The exploitation of natural resources will reach a point of saturation in the near future and agricultural land has a greater pressure than it can endure. Even with the present population which crossed 990 million mark in 1999 the poor who form the bulk of the population could hardly get two square meals.

en 1960 and 1970 the growth rate was 2.5%. With this percentage the population in any country would be doubled within thirty years. It is true that in 1830 world was too big for 1000 million people which was less than the present population of China. The world had more resources and comparatively much less population. Multiplication of population was advisable.

There should be no problem in a country if the growth of population is less than the growth of resources to sustain the population. Once the two run parallel the ideal of zero growth can be achieved. It has already been achieved in most of the countries of the west. They have started thinking that they have less hands to work.

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