India is a migration superpower with 17.5 million migrant population
Is India becoming more urban? | The Economist
- published: 24 Feb 2013
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India\'s urban future: An animated infographic that shows why India needs to get better prepared for a boom in urban living Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://ift.tt/20nm83R Recent decades saw an astounding expansion of India\'s population beyond the billion mark. Still, mostly young and poor Indians, have the momentum to keep on growing fast. As India keeps expanding from its 1.2 billion people today, it will outpace China in a little over a decade. Becoming the most populous country on Earth. India is also crowded. Much of the north, especially, is densely packed with people. The competition for land, for farms, for housing, for factories, among a sixth of the world\'s population is growing intense. Yet Indians have just 2.4% of the world\'s land mass to squeeze on to. On average some 382 people are packed on to each square kilometre of territory. To enjoy the world\'s average population density, Indians would need a country more than five times larger. Land the size of Russia. For now Indians remain an unusually rural people. Two-thirds of the population still live in villages, broadly defined. The great rush to the cities has not properly got started yet. Not everyone in a village makes a living from a farm, but many still do. Roughly half of all Indians, especially in the poor and North, still rely on agriculture to survive. But all this is beginning to change, and fast. Over the years India has seen several massive cities grow. It\'ll soon have many more and much bigger ones. As people get richer and better educated, they increasingl...
Is India becoming more urban? | The Economist
- published: 24 Feb 2013
- views: 141316
India\'s urban future: An animated infographic that shows why India needs to get better prepared for a boom in urban living Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://ift.tt/20nm83R Recent decades saw an astounding expansion of India\'s population beyond the billion mark. Still, mostly young and poor Indians, have the momentum to keep on growing fast. As India keeps expanding from its 1.2 billion people today, it will outpace China in a little over a decade. Becoming the most populous country on Earth. India is also crowded. Much of the north, especially, is densely packed with people. The competition for land, for farms, for housing, for factories, among a sixth of the world\'s population is growing intense. Yet Indians have just 2.4% of the world\'s land mass to squeeze on to. On average some 382 people are packed on to each square kilometre of territory. To enjoy the world\'s average population density, Indians would need a country more than five times larger. Land the size of Russia. For now Indians remain an unusually rural people. Two-thirds of the population still live in villages, broadly defined. The great rush to the cities has not properly got started yet. Not everyone in a village makes a living from a farm, but many still do. Roughly half of all Indians, especially in the poor and North, still rely on agriculture to survive. But all this is beginning to change, and fast. Over the years India has seen several massive cities grow. It\'ll soon have many more and much bigger ones. As people get richer and better educated, they increasingl...
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