Composition of population refers to the arrangement of population according to the social characteristics like age, sex, religion, occupation and martial status. Composition of population is based on the division of social hierarchical relations. The study of population composition is very important from various points of view. They are enlisted below:* It helps to government and other organizations to launch the programmes and make plans and policies.
* Population composition is the pillar of demographic study. It is the base of many theories related to population.
* In some cases, special programmes should be launched for backward and deprived people. Population composition helps in it.
* Population composition helps us to know how the social organization are formed. We can know about the diversity in religion, castes and many other social structures.
The composition of population is studied according to caste, religion, age, sex, occupation, language etc. Composition of population on the basis of various charestericities is given below:
Comp
osition of population by ageAge composition of population refers to the study of population on the basis of various age group. There are three major divisions in age composition of people.
- 0-14 years
- 15-59 years
- Above 60 years
Among these age groups, 15-59 years is known as economically active population. The other two age groups are inactive or dependent population. The age composition of population helps us to know how many people are small children, how many of them are old and how many belong to reproductively fecund age group also. But it makes the study lengthily. Therefore, demographers have made the study quinquennial.
Composition of population by sex
Sex composition of population helps us to know about the arrangement of population on basis of male-female distinction. It helps to make plans and policies related to upliftment of female.












to be a savage crime.
Overflow of water is called flood. Usually we have to face flood every year. During the monsoon, the rivers in our country overflow. Floods sweep over agricultural fields and destroys crops due to heavy rain.

Shaking or vibration of earth surface is called earthquake. It destroys a large number of lives and large amount of property. There are two types of earthquake. They are the vertical earth quake and the horizontal earthquake.



'Education for all' proves to be a slogan and aphorism. A person who is over twenty years of age is normally called an adult. The special education for the adult is known as adult education. In order to reduce the number of illiterate adults, it is implemented in most of the countries.












agriculture, medical, piloting, engineering etc. Technical education concerns with technology.

Some social evils and crime such as untouchable, superstition,early marriage and so on have stigmatized our identification and dignity.Its practice is a punishable crime which has been abolished by law in 'Nepal'.Untouchable is deeply rooted to human snobbery.Human beings are the same existence by nature.If they practice social evils, they are led to human snobbery. Untouchable may invite, some social disasters which result failures and destruction.Because of the egoism of the rich, the rich people started calling the poor 'Untouchable', and it has been in practice since then.
