From black to grey: on the Sample Registration System – Statistical Report, 2024
The article analyzes the Sample Registration System – Statistical Report, 2024, highlighting India's significant demographic shift. It notes a falling Total Fertility Rate (TFR) to 1.9, below the replacement level of 2.1, and a slowing population growth. While India still has a demographic dividend with a young population (median age 29.2), the report signals a transition towards an aging population and a shrinking workforce expansion. Factors like urbanization, education, contraception access, and improved healthcare contribute to these changes. The article also points out vast regional and rural/urban disparities in demographic indicators, particularly in child survival rates, necessitating targeted interventions and forward planning for a 'greying nation'.
The article analyzes the Sample Registration System – Statistical Report, 2024, highlighting India's significant demographic shift. It notes a falling Total Fertility Rate (TFR) to 1.9, below the replacement level of 2.1, and a slowing population growth. While India still has a demographic dividend with a young population (median age 29.2), the report signals a transition towards an aging population and a shrinking workforce expansion. Factors like urbanization, education, contraception access, and improved healthcare contribute to these changes. The article also points out vast regional and rural/urban disparities in demographic indicators, particularly in child survival rates, necessitating targeted interventions and forward planning for a 'greying nation'.
Exam linkage
GS Paper 1: Population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies. GS Paper 2: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
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