Lesson 10: Population Growth in India

February 25, 2025

Review:

• Exam 1
  • Results
  • Solutions
  • Corrections

Presentation:

• South Asia Geography:
  • Map Quiz Game
• Front lines of climate change, rising sea levels
  • Maldives (Recommended: The Island President)
  • Bangladesh 
  • Flooding in Pakistan
  • Monsoon climate in South Asia, SE Asia, East Asia
  • Angkor Wat – me and Bun, just me

• Population Growth
  • Mapping Global Population (Economist video)
  • Population Pyramids
• India
  • Population
    • 2017: India = 1.34B, China = 1.39B, US = 326M
    • 2024: India = 1.42B, China = 1.41B, US = 342M
    • Time Plot
  • Economy
    • Growth rate
    • “Middle Class” in India larger than the entire US Population
      • George W. Bush quote (Reuters)
      • India to America: Eat Less, Fatties (Time)
    • Projections
      • world’s 3rd largest economy in 10 years
      • world’s largest economy in 30 years
  • Video
    • India Rising (Foreign Policy Association)

Assignment:

• Watch India Awakes (Free to Choose Media)
• Recommended (optional, not required):
  • A Fine Balance by R. Mistry (book on Amazon) – mid-1970s amid extreme poverty
  • Delhi Crime (tv series on Netflix) – contemporary crime drama based on recent events
  • The Railway Men (movie on Netflix) – Bhopal disaster
  • Gandhi (movie on Amazon Prime Video) – the classic Academy Award winning biography