The Spread of the Black Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, 1870 to 1970

Abstract

India, with 1.2 million square miles, ranks only seventh in area but supports the second largest population in the world. From 1871, the year of the first decennial census, to 1921, India experienced periods of both absolute increase and decline of population. Since 1921, however, there has been a continued and rapid population growth of 11.0, 14.2, 13.3, 21.6, and 24.7 percent in each successive decade to 1971.1 India's population totaled 547.9 million in 1971 and was unequally distributed across the country (fig. 1).² An effective means of cartographic representation of India's population growth and its spatial characteristics is the focus of this paper.