BIRTH RATE
Poverty
Religious beliefs, Traditions and Cultural Norms
DEATH RATE-
Although poverty has increased and the development of the country continues to be hampered, the improvements in medical facilities have been tremendous. This improvement might be considered positive, but as far as population increase is considered, it has only been positive in terms of increasing the population further. The crude death rate in India in 1981 was approximately 12.5, and that decreased to approximately 8.7 in 1999.As a result, although the measures to control birth are either not available or known to the public, the facilities to increase birth through medical facilities are available.
Current World Population –
The world's population doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion in 1999. It is currently (2010) at 6.8 billion, and is expected to reach 9 billion by around 2042.
More than 36 million died of hunger or diseases caused by malnutrition in 2006.". According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases. Environmental issues with agriculture have hampered the finding of acceptable solutions to these problems.
At present (2010), India India India
In addition Ehrlich said: "One general prediction can be made with confidence: the cost of feeding yourself and your family will continue to increase. There may be minor fluctuations in food prices, but the overall trend will be up." This has been held true with world food prices continuing to rise; 1 in 6 having there food prices doubling in the last decade and the global food crisis making over 1 billion people not having enough food to eat every day.
Some of the predictions came true but the effects are mainly unfelt in the developed world, according to Ehrlich critics. The world food production has grown exponentially at a rate much higher than population growth in both developed and developing countries, partially due to the efforts of Norman Borlaug's "Green Revolution" of the 1960s. The food per capita level is the highest in history and, according to a Russian textbook published in 2006, population growth rates have significantly slowed, especially in the developed world . However the effects of the green revolution have been short lived with an ever increasing rate of land becomming unusable for crop production and the last decade being the only decade on record where more food was consumed than produced. This has almost completely used world grain stores and doubt has been cast over the UN world food programmes ability to feed the ncreasing number of people being added to the program. In 2009, a net gain 75 million people occurred with the number of people starving going from 0.8 billion in 2008 to 1.01 billion in 2010.
Famine has not been eliminated, but its root cause has been political instability, not global food shortage. The Indian economist and Nobel Prize winner, Amartya Sen, has argued that nations with democracy and a free press have virtually never suffered from extended famines. Nevertheless, in 2009 the U.N. reported that one billion of the world's population of nearly seven billion people were in a constant state of hunger, and that the proportion of hungry to non-hungry was expected to rise considerably in the coming decades because most population growth was occurring in the least developed countries.
