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Our population which was approximately 350 million at the time of our independence reached close to the billion murk by 2000 and crossed 1 billion in May 2000. Mention the probable reason for this.

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Rapid decline in death rate. Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate IMR as well as increase in number of people in reproducible age are the probable reasons for the increase in population
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