Monday, October 28, 2024

"South India facing population challenges"

From Semafor, October 28:

The News
The world’s two most populous countries are now grappling with demographic challenges. India’s population growth rate has slowed, and the heads of two states in the country’s south — where the fertility rate has sharply dropped — recently urged families to have more children. Leaders are concerned that slowing population growth in southern India could lead to less representation in the federal legislature....

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The embedded link to India Inside Out has a lot of detail and a bit of chart mania.

https://rohanvenkat.substack.com/p/ageing-south-india-and-a-census-delimitation