A demographic dividend occurs when the rate of economic growth is increased due to a change in the age structure of a population that favours the presence of more working age people than that of a dependent population. A demographic dividend thus is the result of a changing age structure of the population. Basic Concepts […]
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Scheduled Tribes are classified as a community of indigenous or tribal people by the Constitution who are also deemed as socially disadvantaged. Out of Scheduled Tribes, the tribal groups least affected by modern processes of development, i.e. Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) in India are characterized by being geographically isolated and relatively cut off from mainstream […]
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Urbanization is one of the most common global phenomena in the world, and is said to occur in many phases. In the overwhelming majority of cases, urban lifestyles and infrastructure has spread to encompass most human settlements. It is very rare that the opposite occurs, and rural lifestyles and infrastructure spread and influence human settlement […]
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There is much discussion about religious communities and their population growth in India. However, if we look at the details, what we see is that the communities that inhabit a given region behave at par with each other – despite their religious status. For example, as per the 2011 Census, the Muslims had the fastest […]
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An increasingly masculinising population has thus been a continuing historical reality in India. The first censuses by the British administration in colonial India had noted the unusually male-heavy character of the Indian population. However, in the absence of reliable statistics, it took decades for scholars to make sense of this oddity and to establish that […]
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Update on October 25, 2016 Since October 14, a total of 64 birds have been found dead across Delhi due to Avian flu. More than 50,000 samples from the various birding sites in Delhi have been sent to research labs for analysis. Some of the dead birds showed symptoms of the ‘Ranikhet disease’. If that is the case, authorities say, […]
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With 1.15 billion people, India is currently the world’s second largest country, China being the first. Demographers expect India’s population to surpass China by 2030, at 1.53 billion, when China’s population will begin to fall after a peak of 1.46 billion. At the time of India’s Independence the country’s population was a mere 350 million. […]
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