Monitoring the population plays a key role in helping meet the national level challenges arising out of the rapid rise in India’s population. With the increasing concern of every educated citizen in the country for our rapidly growing population it has become necessary to impart essential knowledge about the population phenomenon to our younger generation. The book has been written utilizing the latest data to the extent it has been possible. This book can cater to the needs of all those who are keenly interested in India’s demographic challenges. A conscious effort has been made to have a clear and comprehensible exposition with minimum of technical materials to help general readers of the subject. The book has also been prepared in a language that is understood by those who have not had an advanced training in mathematical demography. About the Author J.P. Singh an author and lexicographer holds a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University (Canberra). He had an advance training in population and economics at the ISS Hague (the Netherlands) and attended a Summer Training Programme at the Institute of Population EastWest Center of University of Hawaii (USA). He has worked as a Professor Sociology Additional Director of Population Research Centre (sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India) and Pro ViceChancellor of Patna University (Patna). He has also worked as Director (Higher Education) and DirectorcumChairman Bihar Hindi Granth Academy Government of Bihar. He has published more than 100 research papers and book reviews in professional journals from India and abroad and has published more than 40 books in the field of demography anthropology and sociology
