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Answer the following in brief:

Define:


i. Population growth


ii. Infant Mortality Rate


iii. Census


iv. Sustainable Development


i. It is defined as the increase or average annual growth of the population.


ii. It is defined as the number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age for every 1000 live births in a year.


iii. It is a procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the characteristics of populations like literacy, sex, age, occupation etc.


iv. Sustainable development is the development that caters the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generation


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