Analysis of India's Population Policy: An Experience of Five Decades

Abstract

The demographic transition in the developed countries occurred without a government sponsored family planning programme. The transition took place in a synchronized manner along with socio-economic development. The rate of growth of their population was never very high. The experience of the developing countries, in this respect, was rather skewed. After the second world war, these countries experienced a sudden decline in mortality which was devoid of, in most cases, any perceptible improvement in socioeconomic development. Before the level of fertility started declining, they attained a low level of mortality, which was comparable to that existing in developed countries when they were completing the transition. For the developing countries, the
growth rates have sometimes crossed the 3 percent mark.