The first synchronic all India census was organised in the year :

Largest compound of internal migration in India is :

Assertion(A): It is estimated that even if India attains a replacement level of fertility by 2010 and maintains it thereafter, it will end up with a population of 1.7 billion towards the end of the twenty - first century.
Reason(R): Current age-structure of population indicates a continuous increase in size of population.

Consider the following factors :

1.     Increasing birth rate

2.     Perceived importance of children as additional earners

3.     Declining death rate

4.     Increasing age of marriage

Which of these are causes of population explosion in India ?

Assertion(A): Law is an agency of social control.
Reason(R): It is through law that state brings about social change.

Pronatalism refers to the :

The census definition of 'town' remained more or less the same for a very long period in India. This was modified at the national level in the year.

Based on the 1981-91 decennical growth rate of population, states with the highest and the lowest growth rates are respectively.

Assertion(A): The median age of the population of India dropped immediately after the improvement in health infrastructure.
Reason(R): Mortality affects age-structure to much lesser extent than fertility.

Which one of the following, best describes the pattern of age-sex structure of a population passing through a stage of high fertility and high mortality ?