SSC CGL 3 Sep 2016 Paper

In his 1798 work, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus examined the relationship between population growth and resources and developed the Malthusian theory of population growth. He proposed that human populations grow exponentially (i.e., doubling with each cycle) while food production grows at an arithmetic rate (i.e. by the repeated addition of a uniform increment in each uniform interval of time).