| Match the following concepts with a compatible option from the next section | |
| 1)Preventive checks | a)1911-1921 |
| 2)Negative population growth in India | b)Celibacy |
| 3)Positive checks | c)1790 |
| 4)The first census in the world | d)famine |
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
Preventive
checks’ such as postponing marriage or practising sexual abstinence or celibacy).
Malthus believed, therefore, that ‘positive checks’ to population growth – in the
form of famines and diseases – was inevitable because they were nature’s way
of dealing with the imbalance between food supply and increasing population.
The American census of 1790
was probably the first modern census, and the practice was soon taken up in
Europe as well in the early 1800s.
Between 1911 and 1921, there
was a negative rate of growth in the Indian population – 0.03%.