Youth share and fertility rate declining: Data

India is ageing.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

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.