Volume : 10, Issue : 12, DEC 2024

INDIA IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: A RISING ECONOMIC POWER

DYNAMICS OF POPULATION DENSITY IN SOUTH ASIA: A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

AMIT KUMAR, PROF. RAJENDER KUMAR

Abstract

In 2024, population of South Asia was 1.97 billion that was nearly one-fourth (around 24 percent) of the world’s total population (8.2 billion). South Asia is comprised of eight countries, which also called as SAARC countries, displays wide variation in density due to its diverse socio-economic-cultural milieu and physiographic situations as well as human-induced landscape. This paper examines the dynamics of population density during 2001-2024 in South Asia with aiming at density changes in absolute term and percentage points. As of 2024, the lowest density (21) was recorded by the Himalayan nation Bhutan and the highest (1759) by the Maldives situated in the Arabian sea. Over the study period the maximum absolute changes of 803 points occurred in the small island country the Maldives and the minimum of 5 points in Bhutan. At the world level this change was 13 points and in the South Asian region it was 111 points. The dynamics of population density of South Asian countries is shaped by natural as well as anthropogenic factors, and needs sustainability of demographic features.

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