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Challenges ahead as India seeks to tap demographic dividend

Between 2020 and 2040, India’s population aged 15 to 59 years is expected to increase by 134.6 million. PHOTO: REUTERS
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NEW DELHI – India has the world’s largest youth population – one in five people aged under 25 lives in the country. That is 650 million young people, or 47 per cent of the South Asian nation’s population.

And it is on the shoulders of these young people that India’s dreams of making the most of its demographic dividend rest.

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