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According to Malthusian theory of population
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- Population increases in geometric ratio, food supply increases in arithmetic ratio
- Population increases in arithmetic ratio, food supply increases in geometric ratio
- Population increases in a harmonic mean, food supply increases in geometric ratio
- Population increases in a harmonic ratio, food supply increases in a arithmetic ratio
- Population increases in geometric ratio, food supply increases in arithmetic ratio
Correct Option: A
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).
