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The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
Highlight the main features of demographic dividend in India.
(i) The ‘demographic dividend’ results from an increase in the proportion of workers relative to non-workers in the population. In terms of age, the working population is roughly that between 15 and 64 years of age.
(ii) This working age group must support itself as well as those outside this age group (i.e., children and elderly people) who are unable to work and are therefore dependents.
(iii) The actual problem is in defining the dependency ratio as the ratio of the non-working age to working-age population, rather than the ratio of non-workers to workers.
(iv) India is really facing a window of opportunity generated by the demographic dividend.
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What does Emile Durkheim state in a report after survey of different countries in the world?
Why is distinction made between formal and social demography?
What problems have in India because of over-population?
Who was Thomas Robert Malthus and why is he famous?
What does Malthus write in an essay on the principle of population, 1798 CE?
What are the chief characteristics of Malthusian theory of population growth?
How were Malthus's predictions proved false by the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century in Europe?
How was Malthus's theory met to rebuttal by liberal and Marxist scholars?
What is the theory of Demographic Transition?
What are the three basic phases of population growth as per the theory of Demographic Transition?
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