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Table 6.1 reveals that despite the decline in growth rate... - Contemporary India
Table 6.1 reveals that despite the decline in growth rates, the number of people being added every decade is steadily increasing. Why?
The number of people added every decade is steadily increasing despite a declining growth rate because of India's very large base population.
When a low annual growth rate is applied to a very large total population, the absolute increase in numbers becomes very high. For example, a 2% growth rate on a population of 100 million adds 2 million people, but even a lower rate of 1.64% on a much larger population of 1 billion adds over 16 million people.
In simpler terms, because the starting population is already so huge, even a smaller percentage of growth results in a larger total number of people being added.