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Demographic dividend, as defined by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is "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 to 64) is larger than the non-working-age share of the population (14 and younger, and 65 and older)". [1]
India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population. According to estimates from the United Nations (UN), India has overtaken China as the country with the largest population in the world, with a population of 1,425,775,850 at the end of April 2023. [12] [13] [14] [15]
The Demographic Window is defined to be that period of time in a nation's demographic evolution when the proportion of population of working age group is particularly prominent. This occurs when the demographic architecture of a population becomes younger and the percentage of people able to work reaches its height.
56% of India's rural households lack agricultural land. [56] [57] 36% of 884 million people in rural India are non-literate. This is higher than the 32% recorded by 2011 Census of India. [58] Of the 64% literate rural Indians, more than a fifth have not completed primary school. 60% of the 179,100,000 rural households are deprived or poor. [59]
The 1948 Census of India Act does not bind the Union Government to conduct the census on a particular date or to release its data in a notified period. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in 2021 before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India . [ 3 ]
Based on the Census of India (2011), the state has a population of 49,471,555 residents. [1] The sex ratio is way above the national average at 992 as against 978 in 2001. Spread over an area of 160,205 km 2 , the state has a population density of 308 as against 277 in 2001 Census, which is below the national average. [ 2 ]
Source: Census of India [1] The Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has a total population of roughly 1.4 million (as of 2011) on an area of 84,000 km 2 , amounting to a population density of about 17 pop./km 2 (far below the Indian average of 370 pop./km 2 but significantly higher than similarly mountainous Ladakh ).
Bhat's work provides an unparalleled source for Indian demographic data. Below are the selected references that show the breadth of his work on demographic estimates: 1984: Estimating the Incidence of Widow and Widower Remarriages in India from Census Data ("Population Studies", 38, 1, pp 89–103, co-authored with R Kanbargi).