The total population of India is 1210.2 million in which the urban population is 31.15% of the total population. The urban population of India is 377.1 million and the rural population of India is 833.1 million. The urban population of India is more than the population of many countries.The urban population can be referred to as the population inhabiting areas which have a greater population density than the rural areas.This can also be said as the people living in cities.

Effects of Increased Urban Population

The growth of urban population has both negative and positive effects in the life of people and also on the environment.

The process of urbanization can improve both economy and education of people

There are also numerous side effects of the process of urbanization. Some of them are as follows.

  • The increase in population leads to housing problems.
  • Due to this housing problems there may be a result of occupying the forest areas and leads to destruction of the forest.
  • It may result in overcrowding.
  • This leads to an increase in the number of unemployment.
  • Due to less number of places available for housing people start to build slums.This leads to increase in the number of slums.
  • Causes hygienic problems and leads to the spread of diseases.
  • Leads to congestion in the traffic during peak hours.
  • This leads to an increase in the number of crimes in urban areas.

There are also some of the positive effects of the process of urbanization

  • The creation of new opportunities in employment.
  • Leads to improvement and advancement in technology and infrastructure.
  • Improvement of the transport and communication in that area.
  • The medicinal and educational qualities are improved in that place.
  • Totally the standard of living has improved in that area.

Urban Population in Uttar Pradesh

The total population of Uttar Pradesh is 199,812,341 as per the census of 2011.In the total population 77.7% of the people live in the rural areas which is more than the average of our nation(68.84%).

The top five districts of Uttar Pradesh with maximum urban population:

  • Ghaziabad-67.6%
  • Lucknow-66.2%
  • Kanpur-65.8%
  • Gautam Budh nagar-59.1%
  • Meerut-51.1%

The top five districts of Uttar Pradesh with minimum urban population:

  • Shravasti-3.5%
  • Kushinagar-4.7%
  • Maharajganj-5%
  • Sultanpur-5.3%
  • Pratapgarh-5.5%

Total Population Growth in This Decade

Uttar Pradesh has a total population of 19.98 crores as per 2011 census.The total number of males was 104,480,510 and a total number of females was 95,331,831.

As per the census of 2001 the population of Uttar Pradesh was 16.62 crores.The total number of males was 87,565,369 and a total number of females was 78,632,552.

Thus total population growth of Uttar Pradesh in one decade is (from 2001-2011) 20.23%.In the previous decade(1991-2001) it was 25.80%.Thus the population growth of Uttar Pradesh is in the decline rate.

Conclusion

Thus the process of urbanization has both positive and negative effects. Anything is safe up to a limit. So the process of urbanization is also safe up to a limit only. The results of the excess urbanization are also explained. The urbanization of India’s populous state Uttar Pradesh is also explained to give the idea of the extent of urbanization.