Briefly describe the demographic factors responsible for thr need of population education in India.

In India, the age of marriage is still very low and the preference for a son still exists in the minds of Indians even today. Literacy rates are low, particularly in the case of females. Male-female ratio is becoming increasingly unfavourable to women and mortality rates are to be reduced futher. The birth rate in india is so high that it is higher than what the economy can sustain at the existing level of development. A table shows that since 1951 our population has more than doubled and in 1993, the population of India was above 88 corre. It is the ever-growing numbers which have made our population a matter of serious concern. Planning for such a large population is very hard task.

Year	Population
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991	361,088,090 439,234,777 548,159,652 683,329,097 844,324,222

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