Population growth in purulia district of West Bengal: A geographical analysis

In a country or region, how many people live and the total number of people is called total human population of that particular country. The development of a region depends upon human resource of that region Thus it is important to know the dynamics of population. Population growth rate depend on three major factors, these are birth rate, death rate and migration. The country, where birth rate and in-migration is higher than death rate population will increase, on the other hand, where death rate is greater than birth rate and migration the population growth rate will low. Present paper analysed the spatial and temporal pattern of growth rate of population in Purulia district during the period of 1901–2011. The main objective in this paper is to understand the population growth rate of Purulia district, west Bengal. For this study secondary data were used and various statistical and cartographic techniques were used to analyze the obtained data. The study finds that the spatial and temporal variation of growth rate exists in this area.