Demographic Changes and Population Growth in Gorakhpur District: Recent Trends and Status

Abstract

The World is going through a period of unprecedentedly rapid demographic change in this sense the most obvious example of this change is the huge expansion of human beings in number i.e. four billion have been added since 1950.To understand the population dynamics we should focus on demographic changes with reference to total population, population density, sex ratio, literacy rate, scheduled caste population and workers in total population and it’s characteristics with age composition of that society. The presented research paper focused on these aforementioned areas of population dynamics of Gorakhpur district.