How India’s population bulge could become a ticking bomb

[V.Balasubramani]

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[h=1]How India’s population bulge could become a ticking bomb
by Sanjoy Narayan, Hindustan Times

Today, an estimated average of 68,922 Indian citizens will turn 25. Tomorrow there will another 68,922 newly minted 25 year olds. Ditto the day after tomorrow and the day after that, and so on till 2025.[/h]
That number— 68,922 — is an average calculated on a projection of age-wise population data that was sourced from the national census of 2011 and what it means is this: Every month, 2.1 million people in India will turn 25. Of them, 1.48 million will be in rural India and remaining 0.62 million in urban centres. What it also means is that 10 years from now, in 2025, there will be 690 million Indian citizens below the age of 25.

By then, India’s population is expected to grow to 1.43 billion and under-25s will comprise more than 48%.

Why am I throwing these numbers at you on a Sunday morning? You, I and everyone else already know(s) that even today India is one of the world’s biggest “young” nations with nearly two-thirds of its population below the age of 35 and nearly half below 25.

So what’s the big deal about 2025 when there will be nearly 700 million under-25s?


Read more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/sanjo...d-become-a-ticking-bomb/article1-1383171.aspx

 

[yesmohan]

So what’s the big deal about 2025 when there will be nearly 700 million under-25s?

Could all the 700 millions with a pair of hands each,stand as a potential for growth on some innovated path?
or would stand on the road, fighting for employment /food / cloth/ all other essentials and necessaries of life?
Of course, it is not a too much a distant scene.

 

[sangom]

How India’s population bulge could become a ticking bomb
by Sanjoy Narayan, Hindustan Times

Today, an estimated average of 68,922 Indian citizens will turn 25. Tomorrow there will another 68,922 newly minted 25 year olds. Ditto the day after tomorrow and the day after that, and so on till 2025.


That number— 68,922 — is an average calculated on a projection of age-wise population data that was sourced from the national census of 2011 and what it means is this: Every month, 2.1 million people in India will turn 25. Of them, 1.48 million will be in rural India and remaining 0.62 million in urban centres. What it also means is that 10 years from now, in 2025, there will be 690 million Indian citizens below the age of 25.

By then, India’s population is expected to grow to 1.43 billion and under-25s will comprise more than 48%.

Why am I throwing these numbers at you on a Sunday morning? You, I and everyone else already know(s) that even today India is one of the world’s biggest “young” nations with nearly two-thirds of its population below the age of 35 and nearly half below 25.

So what’s the big deal about 2025 when there will be nearly 700 million under-25s?


Read more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/sanjo...d-become-a-ticking-bomb/article1-1383171.aspx

I am glad that at last someone has woken up to this very great danger. The problem today, according to me, is that our country is dictated to by the western global corporations and their profit-oriented approach, whereas, a country cannot be run on the lines of any large corporate. This fundamental point is not seen by any political party.

Age of 25 is not very relevant, but able-bodied but jobless people will surely be like a huge time bomb and more so in a country like India where caste, class, language and a variety of other coordinates can give rise to thousands of groups, each claiming sons of the soil status and unleashing a mammoth revolution of sorts.

If the government foresees this possibility, it may be able to do something.

 

[sarang]

If population density is taken as the criteria, then India can afford to have more in numbers, as even advanced countries have higher density. Challenge is not numbers but management of resources.