This isn’t a surprise: India is a very young country. In urban India, the fertility rate is 1.8—well below what’s called the “replacement rate” needed to keep the population constant. Kolkata has a fertility rate of 1.2—lower than Japan’s, which is 1.4. The state of Uttar Pradesh, with a population somewhere between that of Nigeria and Brazil, has a fertility rate close to 3; neighbouring Bihar, which already has 100 million people, has a fertility rate of 3.3. And so there are two ways in which India’s great generation, this vast baby boom, this billion-strong workforce, might change the world.

Source: Mint September 08, 2017 03:00 UTC