Impact of density of population of Indian States on their economic growth

Abstract

As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.21 billion, India is the world's second most populated country after China. India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area and is home to 17.5 percent the world's population. The objective of the paper was to study what changes in SDP of states in 2001 and 2011, changes in Density and Population of states in 2001 and 2011 and to study the relation between SDP and Density. The conclusion that was drawn from the Correlation results in the years 2001 and 2011 is that despite the fact population has grown tremendously over this one decade, the SDP relation with the Density of Population of states has been strongly negative From-0.37 in 2001 to-0.44 in 2011 which signifies that the Population Growth is not that productive and as the Density increases there is heavy fall in the growth of SDP. States with high densities have less growth in SDP as compared to states with low densities because the unproductive labour dampens their growth. And states with high SDP have low densities which signify that areas which are not densely populated have much productive labour force than the densed areas.