UPSC CSE Population — practice questions
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Practice UPSC CSE Population in the app →In 2011 India's population was 1,210 million, making it the most populous country after:Population data in India are collected through a Census held every:India's first complete Census was conducted in:The state with the highest population is Uttar Pradesh, followed by:Which physical factors largely determine population distribution?Rajasthan saw population grow in once thin areas because of the development of:Density of population is the number of persons per:The density of population in India in 2011 was:The lowest population density, 17 persons per sq km, is in:The highest density, 11,297 persons per sq km, is in:Among northern states, the highest density, 1,102, is in:Population growth has two components, natural and:The annual growth rate of India's population is about:India recorded a negative population growth rate during:Since 1981 the growth rate of India's population has:Which state registered the lowest decadal growth rate, 9.4 percent?The National Youth Policy 2014 defines youth as persons aged:About what share of India's population lives in villages?India has how many villages according to the 2011 Census?The proportion of urban population in India, 31.16 percent, is low but is:Modern India has about how many scheduled languages?The scheduled language with the highest share of speakers is:During British rule, labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were shipped to Mauritius, Fiji and the Caribbean The time-bound contract system for colonial plantation labour was known as the:The Portuguese sent labour from Goa, Daman and Diu to work in:A steady outflow of Indian semi-skilled and skilled labour to West Asia followed the:Doctors, engineers and later software professionals migrating to the USA, Canada and UK form the:Migration was first recorded in the Census of India conducted in:Place of birth and duration of residence were added to the Census in:Reasons for migration were first incorporated in the Census of:A person whose place of birth differs from the place of enumeration is a:In the 2011 Census, migrants by place of last residence numbered about:How many streams of internal migration does the Census identify?Short distance rural to rural migration streams are dominated by:Most of the 5 million people who migrated into India came from:Which state occupied first place in attracting migrants from other states?The state with the largest number of net out-migrants is:Poverty and population pressure that make people leave a place are called:Regular work and higher wages that attract migrants to cities are called:The main cause of male migration is work and employment; for females it is:Marriage migration of females is reversed in which state?A major benefit for the source region of migrants is:In 2002 India received how much in remittances from international migrants?A negative consequence of unregulated migration to industrial states is the growth of:The first Human Development Report was published in 1990 by:The most significant aspect of human development is enlarging the range of people's:The 1993 Human Development Report said development must be woven around:India is ranked 130 among how many countries in the HDI?With an HDI value of 0.640, India is grouped among countries of:Which body prepared the Human Development Report for India using states as units?Gross National Product per capita is used to measure a country's:In 2011-12 the share of India's population below the poverty line was estimated at:Which state group recorded more than 30 percent of people below the poverty line?Poverty in absolute terms reflects an individual's inability to satisfy basic:GDP does not fully reflect quality of life because it ignores factors like housing, transport and:The flagship programme aiming at a pollution-free, open defecation-free India is:The Swachh Bharat Mission includes supplying which clean fuel to rural households?India's death rate fell from 25.1 per thousand in 1951 to what in 2015?In which two developed states is the child sex ratio below 850 girls per thousand boys?Which state is the exception where the child sex ratio has not declined?Overall literacy in India in 2011 was approximately:Which state has very low literacy of 63.82 percent?Kerala and Mizoram have literacy rates of about:In the Planning Commission's state HDI, which state topped with a value of 0.790?Which states are at the bottom of the state HDI ranking?Freedom from hunger, poverty and illiteracy is the key to:A cluster of dwellings where people live and command a territory as economic base is a:Small, sparsely spaced settlements specialising in agriculture are called:Urban settlements specialise in:A compact, closely built village with farms outside it, common in the northern plains, is:In Rajasthan, compact settlements are necessitated by scarcity of:In Bundelkhand and Nagaland, people live in compact villages mainly for:Semi-clustered settlements, where dominant groups hold the centre and others the flanks, are widespread in theIsolated huts on remote hills in Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Kerala form which settlement type?Varanasi, Prayag, Pataliputra and Madurai are examples of:Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Agra grew as fort towns in the:Europeans first developed trading ports such as Surat, Daman, Goa and:The British consolidated their hold around three principal nodes: Mumbai, Chennai and:Which town is cited as a modern industrial town that evolved after 1850?Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar and Gandhinagar were developed after independence as:Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Gurugram around Delhi are examples of:The level of urbanisation in India in 2011 was:The Census classifies urban centres into how many classes?An urban centre with more than one lakh people is called a:Cities with more than five million people are:More than 60 percent of India's urban population lives in:How many of India's cities are metropolitan cities or urban agglomerations?The largest urban agglomeration, with 18.4 million people, is:A geographer notes that people crowd into a tiny part of the earth. What share of world population lives on abThe ten most populous countries hold about 60 per cent of humanity. How many of them are in Asia?Why are river valleys among the most densely populated areas?The Ganga plains are crowded while the Himalayan zones are nearly empty. Which factor explains this?The Katanga Zambia copper belt in Africa is densely populated. Which factor draws people there?The Kobe-Osaka region of Japan is thickly populated because of what?A town had 1,000 births and 600 deaths in a year with no migration. Its natural growth is:The crude birth rate counts live births per how many people in a year?A family leaves Bihar for Delhi. What is Bihar called in migration terms?A person who moves into a new country is called an:Unemployment, floods and epidemics drive people away from home. What are these called?Better jobs, security and a pleasant climate that attract migrants are called:When agriculture began about 12,000 to 8,000 years ago, roughly how large was world population?Around 1750, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, world population was about:It took a million years to reach one billion people. How long did it take to go from 5 to 6 billion?What is India's annual population growth rate mentioned in the text?Which theory says population moves from high births and deaths to low births and deaths as society develops?In the first stage of demographic transition, why do people have many children?In the last stage of demographic transition, what happens to fertility and mortality?India's population rose from 102.70 crore in 2001 to 121.02 crore in 2011. What is the growth?Which epidemic pushed up death rates and slowed growth in Africa and parts of the CIS?Who argued in 1798 that population would outrun food supply, leading to famine, disease and war?India reports 940 females per 1,000 males. What is this figure called?A region shows a sex ratio strongly unfavourable to women. Which practices does the text link to this?On average, the world has how many males per 100 females?Which country records the highest sex ratio in the world, with only 85 males per 100 females?Which country has about 311 males for every 100 females?The sex ratio favours females in how many countries of the world?Why do many European countries have a deficit of males?Which age group forms the working population?A country has a large share of people above 60. What does this require?A diagram shows males on the left and females on the right by age group. What is it called?