By the End of the Twentieth Century, the Population of India

question 95

Multiple Choice

By the end of the twentieth century, the population of India

• A) is finally decreasing thanks to Indira Gandhi's forced sterilization program.
• B) is declining because life expectancy has dropped from fifty years to less than thirty since the British quit India.
• C) is increasing because of urbanization, and urban Indians want larger families than rural peasants.
• D) continues to increase because of the decline in the death rate.
• E) has leveled out, and will soon begin to decline.

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