High Population in India and what It does to the Country

The large population in India contributes to a lot of things. One of the things it contributes to is India's poverty. Right now the population in India is 1,173,108,083. That number of people is huge for just one country which is what makes poverty in India so big. And because of the poverty, a lot of these people have to live in slums. In India the fertility rate is 3 kids born per women. It is hard for all these people to get a job that pays well which is what makes it more likely you will be born into a slum.

Twenty five percent of people in India make less than a dollar a day. You could only imagine how hard it would be to just live off a dollar a day.  Twenty five percent of the people that live in India live below the poverty line. Another thing about India is that 57% of the country is in dept. These problems are a factor of how people would live. These affect where the people would live, like in slums or in more well off areas. People make so little a day a in Dharavi and yet they are still able to afford a television and rent a house.

Slums in India (or just in general) are terrible places to have to live in. Slums mainly consist of buildings made out of sheet metal and whatever people can use to make the walls for the building. The slum of Daravi in India is one of the largest in the world. It consists of over one million people. Dharavi also provides the cheapest rents in Mumbai for $4 in United States currency. To add to some of the problems in Dharavi, there are quite a few sanitation problems in Dharavi. One of them is quite a major one. It is that the ratio of toilets in Dharavi is 1 to 1440 persons. You can only amagine where people would normally go to the bathroom. They would go in their drinking supplies and maybe even in a back ally. Even though conditions in slums can be this bad, surprisingly most of the residences in Dharavi have colour televisions. Statistics also show that half of the people in Dharavi have gas stoves Seventy percent of buildings in Dharavi have been converted to resturants and other buisinesses. The main buisinesses in Dharavi are pottery and textile buisinesses. Dharavi is also starting to have an increasing recycling business.