Population is a symptom,
not a cause of poverty
Tables 4: Population: How much of a problem?
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Table 4a: Relative share of people of "undivided India," (including |
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Pakistan, Bangladesh and India ) in world population |
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World |
India |
Share |
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1750 |
791 |
170 |
21.49 |
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1800 |
978 |
186 |
19.02 |
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1850 |
1262 |
222 |
17.59 |
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1900 |
1650 |
285 |
17.27 |
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1950 |
2517 |
439 |
17.44 |
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1990 |
5295 |
1078 |
20.36 |
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2025 |
8473 |
1882 |
22.21 |
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Source : Data on world population till 1900, from Agarwala, 1972:2 |
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Data on India's population from Lal, 1988:35 |
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Data on world population from 1950, including data on |
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Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc., from World Resources Institute, 1994. |
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Table 4.b: Relative share of people of India, 1901-2025, in world population |
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World |
India |
Share |
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1900 |
1650 |
235 |
14.24 |
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1950 |
2517 |
358 |
14.22 |
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1990 |
5295 |
846 |
15.98 |
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2025 |
8473 |
1394 |
16.45 |
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Source : Data on India's population from 1901, from Ministry of Home Affairs, 1974:3 |
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Other data from World Resources Institute, 1994. |
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Important studies/ reviews on this topic:
- Richard Easterlin (1996). Growth Triumphant.
- Julian Simon (1981). The Ultimate Resource.
- Pritchett, Lant (1996). "Population Growth, Factor Accumulation, and
Productivity," a Policy Research Working Paper of the World Bank, Poverty
and Human Resources Division. No. 1567. Jan. 1996.
- Poverty Reduction and the World Bank: Progress and Challenges in the
1990s. Washington D.C. World Bank, 1996.
- Immigration: The
Demographic and Economic Facts, by Julian Simon