India’s demographic conditions during the British rule depict our economy as stagnant and backward. Due to high birth rate and high death rate the population growth was stagnant before 1921, the Infant Moratality Rate was also very high at about 218 per thousand which today stands at 47.57 per thousand. The life expectancy rate was low at 32 years while presently, it is around 66.8 years.
The literacy rate was less than 16% with female literacy rate of just 7% which denotes social backwardness and gender bias in the economy. We can infer from the above figures that India was featured with massive poverty, low standard and quality of living and low survival rate in the country. The lack of health care facilities and lack of health awareness were the main causes behind such demographic conditions of India.
