The age structure, as provided by the UN Population Prospects 2022 for India, suggests that the country is currently passing through a “window of demographic opportunity”, where its working ...

Between 1971 and 1981, India’s population was growing on average 2.2% each year. By 2001 to 2011, that had slowed to 1.5% and is even lower now. According to UN projections, India’s population ...

Nowadays no meeting on India seems complete without a reference to the coming "demographic dividend". What really is this demographic dividend? The basic idea is straightforward enough. In the year ...

A demographic dividend is defined by the U.N. as "the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population's age structure, mainly when the share of the working-age population (15 ...

India has not conducted a national census since 2011, and the census scheduled for 2021 was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The U.N. report also estimated that the global population would ...

The Indian working age population will peak 35 years after the Chinese working age population peaks. Taking advantage of this demographic window of opportunity will need economic reforms to ...

Demographic numbers are part of the political provocation game, with right-wing leaders often falsely portraying India’s Muslim population of 200 million as rising sharply in proportion to the ...