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Examine the socio-economic consequences of the changing age-structure of India’s population.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Population Dynamics

Age structure — the distribution of a population across age groups — is the demographic variable with the widest social reach, because it fixes how many must be supported by how many. India's structure has been transformed by the demographic transition: the under-15 share has fallen from about 42% in 1971 to roughly 24%, the…

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  • The dividend and its conditions
  • The failure side
  • Regional asymmetry becomes federalism
  • The coming care economy
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