India has four major shipyards. Hindustan shipyard in Vishakhapatnam, Garden Reach: workshop in Kolkata, Mazagaon Dock in Mumbai, Kochi Shipyard in Kochi. India is the second largest ship owning country in Asia and ranks 16th in the World.

Population trends, health outcomes, education achievements, national income and composition of resources, work and employment, human security, human and capital mobility supplementary indicators: perceptions of well being and status of fundamental rights treaties are the human development indicators.

(i) Human population dynamics is a field that tracks factors related to changes in the size of population and its characteristics
(ii) Predicting population changes is an important aspect of population studies
(iii) The demographic trend affects the economic, social, and environmental systems..
(iv) The size of Population and characteristics undergoes changes constantly

The process of society's transformation rural to urban is known as urbanization

The percentage of literate people to the total population is termed as literacy rate.

The ratio between the economically active and economically inactive of population is termed as dependency ratio.

Sex ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 male population.

Population composition refers to the characteristics such as age, sex, marital status, caste, religion, language, education, occupation etc

(i) Population change refers to an increase or decrease of population of an area from one period to another period.
(ii) Population growth is influenced by the birth rate, death rate and migration.
(iii) These three make the changes in population

(i) Population census is the total process of collecting, compiling, analysing or other wise disseminating demographic, economic and social data pertaining, at a specific time, of all persons in a country or a well-defined part of a country.
(ii) The data collected through the census are used for administration, planning, policy making as well as management and evaluation of various programmes by the government.

(i) Population density is a better measure of understanding the variation in distribution of population.
(ii) It is expressed as number of persons per unit area usually per sq km.
(iii) According to 2011, the average density of population of India is 382 persons per sq.km

(i) The uneven distribution of population in the country is the result of several factors such as physical, socio-economic and historical ones.
(ii) The physical factors include relief, climate, water, natural vegetation, minerals and energy resources.
(iii) Socio-economic factors consists of the religion, culture, political issues, economy, human settlements, transport network, industrialization, urbanization, employment opportunity etc.

India is the second most populous country in the world next only to china. India covers only 2.4 percent of the land area of the world, but is the home of about 17.5 percent of the world's population.

The total number of people residing in a country at a specified period of time is called the 'Population' of that country

Dr. Mahabub-ul-haq defined as "It is a process of enlarging the range of people's choice, increasing their opportunities for education, health care, income, and empowerment. It covers the full range of human choices from a sound physical environment to economic, social and political freedom".