Question

Based on the given Population Pyramids of India for the year 2026 and 2050, answer the following questions.

1. What is demographic dividend?
2. What do you infer, on comparing the given graphics for the age group of 55-59 and 60-64
3. What, according to you, are the implications of this inference?

Answer 1

1. Benefit flowing from the changing age structure.
2. Population in the 55-59 age range is decreasing and that in the 60-64 age range is increasing.
3. India must utilize the potential of people in the working age-group before the demographic window closes. It must also introduce policy changes to provide social security for the increasing number of senior citizens.