It is difficult to see a bright future for the country without sharp reductions in fertility and population growth together with increased investment in health and education," it said.
India's 2001 census found that Andhra Pradesh had the sharpest slowdown in the rate of population growth among India's large states, while Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the hugely populous states in the north, registered a slight rise in the growth rate.
The sharp rise is due to the recent baby boom and population growth.
The British vicar's theory was that population growth was exponential but agricultural growth was arithmetic, so that any sharp rise in population would lead to starvation and thus be self-correcting.
Faced with population growth and reduced oil revenues, Gulf states have begun to roll back subsidies, sparking sharp rises of food prices in Bahrain and bringing fuel prices in the UAE to world market levels.
With rapid population growth like that of the past five years, the tendency towards deficit would be much sharper, and the deficit of specialists would be twice a big as in the scenario with moderate growth, with a drop in the ratio of specialists per 100 000 population from 319 in 2008 to 305 in 2025.
It will also improve Canada's transport system, which has failed to keep up with population growth, and create more affordable housing a big issue in a country that has seen a sharp rise in real-estate prices.
There is also a marked difference in the degree of population growth of the two main islands the North having about three-fourths of the total population, in sharp contrast to the earlier years of systematic settlement.
It will also improve Canada's transport system, which has failed to keep up with population growth, and create more affordable housing — a big issue in a country that has seen a sharp rise in real-estate prices.
Population growth is one.
