The second transition

India is getting younger, right? Wrong! In the steady drumbeat of the fact that half of all Indians are younger than 25 years of age, what has been forgotten is that the 0-25s used to account for 54 per cent of the population in the 2001 census before dropping to 50 per cent in the 2011 census. Still, you could say that the absolute number of 0-25s grew from about 555 million to marginally more than 600 million in the decade to 2011.

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