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Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 52 india is the second most populous country in the world after china with a total population of 121 crores or 1.21 billion according to the census of india 2011 provisional. as can be seen from table 1 the growth rate of indias population has not always been very high. between 1901–1951 the average annual growth rate did not exceed 1.33% a modest rate of growth. in fact between 1911 and 1921 there was a negative rate of growth of – 0.03%. this was because of the influenza epidemic during 1918–19 which killed about 12.5 million persons or 5% of the total population of the country visaria and visaria 2003 191. the growth rate of population substantially increased after independence from british rule going up to 2.2% during 1961-1981 shine india monthly magazine subscription.