India: Curbing Population Growth

Indian governments have implemented different policies to try to curb the country's growing population. Which has been most successful and why?

Human Geography - A Changing World - Learning Points.

India's population is one of the fastest growing in the world, at 1.2 billion in 2010.

Overpopulation has become a problem for India, as resources are insufficient.

Indian governments have implemented measures to curb the population growth.

Measures to curb population growth include: education, contraception, incentivised sterilisation and forced sterilisation (as a form of punishment).

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