How Delaying Marriage and Spacing Births Contributes to Population Control: An Explanation with Illustration

Abstract

Most people in India are now aware that the country's population is growing rapidly, and appreciate the need for controlling its rate of growth. The national family planning program which was initiated primarily to reduce the high fertility and population growth rates in the country has failed to achieve, this, a major reason for this being the undue importance given to sterilization which has proved to be ineffective in reducing family size. In this context, it is important to know as to what other factors can slow down the high rate of growth of population so that efforts can be made to manipulate such-factors in order to check it.