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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicDemographic dividend

Topic: demographic dividend

For India’s youth to drive growth, Budget 2025-26 must deliver on jobs and skills

To unlock the potential of India's demographic dividend, Budget 2025-26 must focus on boosting private investment, enhancing skills development, and advancing education reforms to build a prosperous Viksit Bharat.

India’s next demographic dividend is silver generation. Singapore, Canada show how

India will soon face an ageing population and labour shortages. This is why coherent approaches to engaging the silver generation in the economy are needed now.

Global media on the ‘Indian playbook of curbing press freedom’ & leveraging the demographic dividend

Reports & opinion pieces also explore Bangladesh’s ‘unsustainable’ backlog of payments to Adani Power & why India must not ignore advice from international multilateral agencies.

India is cultivating a demographic time bomb that no number of coaching centres can defuse

Coaching centres in India are an open wound that everyone sees festering but no one dares to stitch up. Meanwhile, the body count rises.

Educated women are having fewer children. It’s not good for India’s demographic dividend

DINKs, Double Income No Kids, is a Western concept. Working couples are aspiring to live a more independent & luxurious life instead of having kids. But this can spell ruin for India's demography.

India’s youth need jobs not freebies. Can govt deliver before demographic dividend fades?

To harness India's demographic dividend, govt must create non-farm jobs for millions of migrants who returned to villages, educated youth, and the openly unemployed.

‘Look at not just size but also quality’, says China as India set to become most populous country

Foreign ministry spokesperson emphasises that China has strategy to deal with ageing population & demographic dividend remains strong, with nearly 900 million people of working age.

33% of India’s youth aren’t in employment, education, or training. Most of them are women

Over 50% of Indian women in 15-29 age group are neither employed nor studying, shows NSSO survey. Most aren’t seeking a job either. Expert points to ‘burden of care’, marriage factor.

Imminent end of ‘demographic dividend’: Share of India’s working age population set to fall by 2036

According to MoSPI report, by 2036, India's working-age population set to grow, but closer look at data shows that by same year, it will comprise smaller share of population than before.

India’s population to cross 152 crore in next 16 years, more people will be of working age

India’s population, which stood at around 121.1 crore according to the 2011 Census, is set to touch 152.2 crore by 2036 — an increase of nearly 1% per annum.

On Camera

Saiyaara proves star kids don’t need hype, just a good film and a killer soundtrack

Ahaan and Aneet appeared refreshingly unknown, and made an impact as the characters they play—the ‘troubled’ rockstar and his demure, writer girlfriend.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.