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With a falling fertility rate and rising median age, how can India translate demographic dividend to economic dividend?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Cultural Setting

Total fertility has fallen to about 1.9, below the replacement level of 2.1, with the crude birth rate down to 18.3 per thousand in 2024 from 21.0 in 2014.

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  • The Demography the Question Concedes
  • The Window Does Not Close on One Date
  • Internal Migration as the Arbitrage
  • The Translation Levers
  • The Second Dividend
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