Ch 2Population and Human Resources Development — Class 12 Economics, concept-first.

Population is not merely a number to be counted — for an economy it is simultaneously the largest single resource and the largest single burden, depending on how it is educated, employed and kept heal…

The Theory of Demographic Transition explains how birth rates and death rates change as a country moves from a traditional, agrarian economy to a modern, industrial one, and how population growth rate…

Older writing on population often treated it purely as a burden — more mouths to feed, more pressure on land and resources.

Human capital is the stock of skill, knowledge, health and experience embodied in a population that makes it economically productive.

For decades, a country's development was judged almost entirely by its per-capita income (GDP per head).

Sample papers and previous-year board questions for this subject.