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‎Age profile of the population

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‎West Bengal

Pdewan at 06:36, 16 February 2016

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 =Age profile of the population=
 ==As in 2018==
 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F07%2F03&entity=Ar00308&sk=5D379078&mode=text  Rema Nagarajan, Male or female, urban or rural, over 50% Indians 25 yrs or older, July 3, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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 The longer a state has had low fertility rates and relatively high life expectancy, the smaller the proportion of its population below 25 years.
-==2011: The average age of Indian states==
+[[Category:Communities|YDEMOGRAPHICS: INDIADEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA
-[[File: demographics .jpg|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
+[[Category:Demography|DDEMOGRAPHICS: INDIADEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA
-'''See graphic''':
+DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
+[[Category:India|YDEMOGRAPHICS: INDIADEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA
-''The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011''
+DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
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-−
-India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.
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 =Birth-, Death-, Natural Growth-, Infant Mortality-, Total Fertility Rates=
 ==1972-2011==
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 ''Birth Rate, Death Rate, Natural Growth Rate, Infant Mortality Rate & Total Fertility Rate by Residence for States/UTs (1972 to 2011)''
 =Working-age population=
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 Experts have pointed out that this dividend, which comes from the number of dependants on each working person being low, will not last for ever with the population steadily aging.
 It has also been argued that if those of working age are not provided skills and jobs, the dividend could prove to be a curse rather than a blessing.
 =Youth edge=
+==2007==
 [http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/welcome.asp?skin=pastissues2&QS=skin%3Dpastissues2%26enter%3DLowLevel The Times of India]
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 Many of these are very small nations like Sao Tome and Principe or Mayotte, but the list includes several not-so-small countries like Oman, Iraq, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Syria and Nicaragua — all with median ages ranging from 19 to 21 years.
 [[File: old.jpg|2011: The share of those older than 80 years in the population of Indian states; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=KERALA-INDIAS-GREYEST-STATE-04012016028019 ''The Times of India''] Jan 04 2016|frame|500px]]
-=2011: The average age of Indian states=
+[[Category:Communities|YDEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA
+DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
-[[File: demographics .jpg|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+[[Category:Demography|DDEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA
-India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.
+DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
+[[Category:India|YDEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA
-=Number of children: 2011=
+DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Now-majority-of-families-have-2-or-less-02032016001042 ''The Times of India''], Mar 02, 2016
-[[File: Average number of children for mothers in 45-49 year age group, 2001-11, among Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Muslims and Sikhs; Per cent of married women with number of children less than 2.jpg|Average number of children for mothers in 45-49 year age group, 2001-11; Per cent of married women with number of children less than 2; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Now-majority-of-families-have-2-or-less-02032016001042 ''The Times of India''], Mar 02, 2016|frame|500px]]
-−
-Subodh Varma
-−
-''' Now, majority of families have 2 or less kids '''
-−
-For the first time in the country's recorded history, more than half the families do not have more than two children, according to Census 2011 data released.
-About 54% married women reported having two or less children, significantly up from the 46.6% two-or-less children mothers counted by the previous Census in 2001, reflecting a pan-India desire for smaller families.
-−
-There were about 34 crore married women who had about 92 crore children in 2011: an average of about 2.69 child ren per married woman. In 2001, the corresponding figures were 27 crore married women having 83 crore children at an average of 3.03 children per woman. The dip in the average number of women is the sharpest compared to earlier decades.
-−
-Another feature is that women are deferring child birth to later years. Among women in the 20-24 years age group, 35% had no child in 2011 compared with 32% in 2001, and in the age group 2529, 16% had no child compared with 13.4% in 2001.
-−
-As a result of these changes, the period fertility rate -the average number of child ren that a woman in the age group 45-49 years has ever borne -has declined by a drastic 16% between 2001 and 2011. The fertility rate of women between 45 and 49 years, that is, when their child bearing days are over, is considered a standard measure by demographers for defining average fertility.
-−
-The 14% decline in Muslim fertility rate is significant because in the previous decade (1991 to 2001) the decline was only 5%. So it appears that Muslim families too are quickly catching up with other communities, impelled by similar economic and social considerations.

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	''Birth Rate, Death Rate, Natural Growth Rate, Infant Mortality Rate & Total Fertility Rate by Residence for States/UTs (1972 to 2011)''		''Birth Rate, Death Rate, Natural Growth Rate, Infant Mortality Rate & Total Fertility Rate by Residence for States/UTs (1972 to 2011)''
		+
		+	=Working-age population=
		+	==2013> 2018==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F07%2F04&entity=Ar00109&sk=B0EAEC46&mode=text July 4, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
		+
		+	[[File: India’s working-age population, the states with the highest and lowest proportion, 2013- 2018..jpg\| India’s working-age population, the states with the highest and lowest proportion, 2013> 2018. <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F07%2F04&entity=Ar00109&sk=B0EAEC46&mode=text July 4, 2020: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
		+
		+	[[File: India’s working-age population, state-wise, 2013- 2018.jpg\| India’s working-age population, state-wise, 2013> 2018. <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F07%2F04&entity=Ar00109&sk=B0EAEC46&mode=text July 4, 2020: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
		+
		+	''' Nearly 2/3rds of Indians are of working age, between 15 and 59 '''
		+
		+	India’s much-discussed “demographic dividend” continues to swell, with the share of working-age population in the country’s total population increasing, data from the recently released Sample Registration System’s 2018 report shows. This is true not just nationally but across all major states.
		+
		+	The SRS report, an annual publication from the office of the census commissioner and registrar general, estimates that in 2018, nearly two-thirds of the population, or 66%, was between the ages of 15 and 59. This proportion has inched up each year, an analysis of reports from 2013 onwards shows.
		+
		+	Those of working age constituted over two-thirds of the population in 12 of the 22 major states in 2018 while five years earlier, this was true in only four of the current states. Two states — Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — had over 70% of their populations in the working age bracket and Bihar remained the lone state in which they were less than 60% of the total.
		+
		+	In general, states widely considered less developed had a lower proportion of their population in the working-age groups. This is because most of these states have also had relatively high fertility rates and hence a relatively larger base of the really young. Among the states with high development indicators, Kerala stands out as an exception.
		+
		+
		+	''' Why Kerala is an exception '''
		+
		+	Kerala’s working-age population is of a similar proportion as in states like Assam and Odisha. The difference however is that in Kerala’s case, this is due to a relatively larger proportion of the elderly thanks to decades of low fertility and high life expectancy.
		+
		+	Another broad trend that emerges from the data is that states that already have higher proportions of working-age populations have seen that share grow faster than the others. Thus, those that started off with a better “demographic dividend” five years ago now have even more of it.
		+
		+	Experts have pointed out that this dividend, which comes from the number of dependants on each working person being low, will not last for ever with the population steadily aging.
		+	It has also been argued that if those of working age are not provided skills and jobs, the dividend could prove to be a curse rather than a blessing.
		+
		+	[[Category:Communities\|Y
		+	DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
		+	[[Category:Demography\|D
		+	DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]
		+	[[Category:India\|Y
		+	DEMOGRAPHICS: INDIA]]

	=Youth edge=		=Youth edge=

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 [[File: India and the world, dependency of those under 15 years of age and those above 65 on the working population, in 2015 and 2050(estimated).jpg| India and the world: Dependency of those under 15 years of age and those above 65 on the working population, in 2015 and 2050(estimated); Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=14_09_2015_006_011_002&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-14092015006011&eid=31808 ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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← Older revision		Revision as of 20:23, 20 June 2016
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	[[File: demographics .jpg\|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]		[[File: demographics .jpg\|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
	India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.		India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.
		+
		+	=Number of children: 2011=
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Now-majority-of-families-have-2-or-less-02032016001042 ''The Times of India''], Mar 02, 2016
		+	[[File: Average number of children for mothers in 45-49 year age group, 2001-11, among Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Muslims and Sikhs; Per cent of married women with number of children less than 2.jpg\|Average number of children for mothers in 45-49 year age group, 2001-11; Per cent of married women with number of children less than 2; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Now-majority-of-families-have-2-or-less-02032016001042 ''The Times of India''], Mar 02, 2016\|frame\|500px]]
		+
		+	Subodh Varma
		+
		+	''' Now, majority of families have 2 or less kids '''
		+
		+	For the first time in the country's recorded history, more than half the families do not have more than two children, according to Census 2011 data released.
		+	About 54% married women reported having two or less children, significantly up from the 46.6% two-or-less children mothers counted by the previous Census in 2001, reflecting a pan-India desire for smaller families.
		+
		+	There were about 34 crore married women who had about 92 crore children in 2011: an average of about 2.69 child ren per married woman. In 2001, the corresponding figures were 27 crore married women having 83 crore children at an average of 3.03 children per woman. The dip in the average number of women is the sharpest compared to earlier decades.
		+
		+	Another feature is that women are deferring child birth to later years. Among women in the 20-24 years age group, 35% had no child in 2011 compared with 32% in 2001, and in the age group 2529, 16% had no child compared with 13.4% in 2001.
		+
		+	As a result of these changes, the period fertility rate -the average number of child ren that a woman in the age group 45-49 years has ever borne -has declined by a drastic 16% between 2001 and 2011. The fertility rate of women between 45 and 49 years, that is, when their child bearing days are over, is considered a standard measure by demographers for defining average fertility.
		+
		+	The 14% decline in Muslim fertility rate is significant because in the previous decade (1991 to 2001) the decline was only 5%. So it appears that Muslim families too are quickly catching up with other communities, impelled by similar economic and social considerations.

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	[[File: demographics .jpg\|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]		[[File: demographics .jpg\|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
	India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.		India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.
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−	~~=West Bengal=~~
−	~~[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/muslims-in-west-bengal-more-deprived-disproportionately-poorer-amartya-sen/article8237670.ece ''The Hindu''], February 15, 2016~~
−
−	~~'''Muslims in West Bengal more deprived, disproportionately poorer: Amartya Sen'''~~
−
−	~~''Amartya Sen released the report of the survey carried out in 325 villages and 75 urban wards.''~~
−
−	~~Muslims, who form 27.01 per cent of West Bengal’s population, “constitute a very large proportion of the poor” in the State, Professor Amartya Sen said.~~
−
−	~~He was releasing a voluminous report on the condition of Muslims in West Bengal titled ‘Living Reality of Muslims in West Bengal.’~~
−
−	“The fact that Muslims in West Bengal are disproportionately poorer and more deprived in terms of living conditions is an empirical recognition that gives this report an inescapable immediacy and practical urgency,” Prof. Sen said, releasing the report with long chapters dedicated to education, health, economic conditions and gender of Muslims of Bengal who constitute a majority in 65 of 341 blocks in the State.
−
−	The survey — the most extensive one on Bengal’s Muslims — was carried out in 325 villages and 75 urban wards from a sample of 81 community development blocks and 30 municipal bodies. The 368-page report was produced by two Kolkata-based research organisations, Association SNAP and Guidance Guild, in association with Prof. Sen’s trust, Pratichi India.
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−	~~'''Low literacy rate'''~~
−
−	~~The report points to little improvement in areas such as literacy, health or participation in work. For example, Muslims have a literacy rate seven per cent lower than the State’s average.~~
−
−	“Around five per cent of those who discontinued education admitted lack of motivation as the factor behind dropping out of school as they did not see any future benefits from education,” the synopsis said. However, the report has not named any political party or held any government institution responsible.
−
−	In the health sector, the condition of, Muslims is no better and the report observes on the basis of State government data and field-level survey that “when Muslim population percentage increases in the blocks, the hospital facilities dwindle down.”
−
−	As a result “almost double the number of hospital beds is available in blocks with less than 15 per cent population share of Muslims in comparison with blocks having 50 per cent or above of (Muslim population).” Such discrimination is underscored in nearly every page of the report.

← Older revision		Revision as of 06:36, 16 February 2016
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	[[File: demographics .jpg\|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]		[[File: demographics .jpg\|The average age of the population of Indian states in 2011 ,Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_03_2015_009_012_003&type=P&artUrl=STATOISTICS-AVER-AGES-04032015009012&eid=31808''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
		+	India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22.2 or Egypt’s 24. In fact, most countries in West Asia and Central America figure in the list of countries with lower median ages than India, and reasonably high life expectancy.

		+	=West Bengal=
		+	[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/muslims-in-west-bengal-more-deprived-disproportionately-poorer-amartya-sen/article8237670.ece ''The Hindu''], February 15, 2016

		+	'''Muslims in West Bengal more deprived, disproportionately poorer: Amartya Sen'''

−	~~India’s median age is much above Bangladesh’s 22~~.~~2 or Egypt’s 24~~. ~~In fact~~, ~~most countries~~ in West ~~Asia~~ and ~~Central America figure~~ in the ~~list~~ of ~~countries~~ with lower ~~median ages~~ than ~~India~~, and ~~reasonably high life expectancy~~.	+	''Amartya Sen released the report of the survey carried out in 325 villages and 75 urban wards.''
		+
		+	Muslims, who form 27.01 per cent of West Bengal’s population, “constitute a very large proportion of the poor” in the State, Professor Amartya Sen said.
		+
		+	He was releasing a voluminous report on the condition of Muslims in West Bengal titled ‘Living Reality of Muslims in West Bengal.’
		+
		+	“The fact that Muslims in West Bengal are disproportionately poorer and more deprived in terms of living conditions is an empirical recognition that gives this report an inescapable immediacy and practical urgency,” Prof. Sen said, releasing the report with long chapters dedicated to education, health, economic conditions and gender of Muslims of Bengal who constitute a majority in 65 of 341 blocks in the State.
		+
		+	The survey — the most extensive one on Bengal’s Muslims — was carried out in 325 villages and 75 urban wards from a sample of 81 community development blocks and 30 municipal bodies. The 368-page report was produced by two Kolkata-based research organisations, Association SNAP and Guidance Guild, in association with Prof. Sen’s trust, Pratichi India.
		+
		+	'''Low literacy rate'''
		+
		+	The report points to little improvement in areas such as literacy, health or participation in work. For example, Muslims have a literacy rate seven per cent lower than the State’s average.
		+
		+	“Around five per cent of those who discontinued education admitted lack of motivation as the factor behind dropping out of school as they did not see any future benefits from education,” the synopsis said. However, the report has not named any political party or held any government institution responsible.
		+
		+	In the health sector, the condition of, Muslims is no better and the report observes on the basis of State government data and field-level survey that “when Muslim population percentage increases in the blocks, the hospital facilities dwindle down.”
		+
		+	As a result “almost double the number of hospital beds is available in blocks with less than 15 per cent population share of Muslims in comparison with blocks having 50 per cent or above of (Muslim population).” Such discrimination is underscored in nearly every page of the report.