This compact and accessible book offers a comprehensive introduction to Population Geography and provides a geographical account of population attributes in the world, with a particular focus on India. The books studies the major components of population change viz, fertility, mortality, and migration; the spatial and temporal processes that fashion them, the resultant problems, and remedial policies. The demographic and economic characteristics of population viz composition and occupational structure along with topics such as size, distribution, and growth of population The major theories of population growth and migration as well as population policies and population-environment interrelations. This edition has been supplemented with a chapter that studies the causes and consequences of pandemic on the population.