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Data: 0-14 age group's share in population declining
Millennium Post Delhi
|Delhi 05 September 2025
PORTRAIT OF AGEING INDIA
NEW DELHI: India is ageing. The Sample Registration System report for 2023 shows a growing proportion of the population now comprises the working-age group, a rise in the elderly population, a long-term decline in the share of the 0-14 age group, and a decline in the fertility rate.
According to the report, the 0-14 age group's share has been declining gradually -- from 41.2 per cent to 38.1 per cent of the total population during 1971-1981, and 36.3 per cent to 24.2 per cent during 1991-2023.
This comes amid a decline in the country's total fertility rate, from 5.2 in 1971 to 1.9 in 2023, SRS data of the Registrar General of India shows.
This story is from the Delhi 05 September 2025 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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