CBSE - Population

1 POPULATION Birth rate is the number of live births per thousand persons in : (1) 10 years (2) 5 years (3) 2 years (4) 1 year

2 POPULATION Which of the following southern states has a high population density? (1) Karnataka (2) Andhra Pradesh (3) Kerala (4) Tamil Nadu

3 POPULATION Which of the following figures shows the population density of India? (1) 1028 million persons (2) 3.28 million square km (3) 324 persons per sq km (4) 13 persons per sq km

4 POPULATION What percentage of India’s population lives in Rajasthan, the biggest state in terms of area? (1) 16.16 per cent (2) 8.02 per cent (3) 7.79 per cent (4) 5.5 per cent

5 POPULATION The lowest density of population is in: (1) Sikkim (2) Meghalaya (3) Arunachal Pradesh (4) Rajasthan

6 POPULATION Which of the following changes in growth of population has been noted since 1981? (1) The annual rate of population growth continued to increase steadily (2) The annual rate of population growth shot up suddenly (3) The growth of population could not be computed due to absence of census (4) The rate of growth of population started declining gradually

7 POPULATION Which of the following statements about population growth between 1951 to 1981 is true? (1) The annual rate of population growth was gradually decreasing (2) The annual rate of population growth was steadily increasing (3) The annual rate of population growth was static (4) Census reports were not available for all decades

8 POPULATION Which of the following statements about population is correct? (1) Population is a dynamic phenomenon (2) The number, distribution and composition of population are static (3) Population of a country always increases with time (4) Migrations do not affect the population of a country

9 POPULATION When did the National Population Policy come into effect? (1) 2001 (2) 1947 (3) 1952 (4) 2000

10 POPULATION The number of people in different age groups is referred as : (1) Sex ratio (2) Age composition (3) Adolescent population (4) Occupational structure