{"id":216278,"date":"2022-11-28T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216278"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:16:11","slug":"its-time-to-discuss-depopulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-time-to-discuss-depopulation\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to discuss depopulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cIts time to discuss depopulation\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>28<sup>th<\/sup> November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1 and GS2 Population and associated Issues<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Human Resource<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the increasing population in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are Statistical data of Population in India as per recent report?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>By current<strong> United Nations estimates<\/strong>, India\u2019s population will begin to decline only in 2063 It will be just shy of 1.7 billion by that time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertility<\/strong> in India is falling along expected lines as a direct result of rising incomes and greater female access to health and education. India\u2019s <strong>total fertility rate <\/strong>is now below the<strong> replacement rate of fertility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the challenges associated with depopulation in India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>First, the<\/strong> mismatch is rising gap between <strong>sex ratio <\/strong>as families with a first son is less likely to have a second child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second<\/strong>, the literacy rate is going to play an important role in deciding depopulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third<\/strong>, the sharp <strong>anti-Muslim tone in the conversation<\/strong> has remained even though fertility between Hindus and Muslims is converging.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The focus of one should be upon the various dimensions of population like harnessing the potential of<strong> demographic dividend<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for much focus on <strong>betterment of living standard of living<\/strong> by providing skills to the youth and bridging the gap between the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cIts time to discuss depopulation\u201d published in The Hindu on 28th November 2022. Syllabus: GS1 and GS2 Population and associated Issues Relevance&#8211; Human Resource News&#8211; The article explains the increasing population in India. What are Statistical data of Population in India as per recent report? By current&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-time-to-discuss-depopulation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s time to discuss depopulation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,212,10498],"class_list":["post-216278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}