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Competition refresher
Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 1 the demographic dividend results from an increase in the proportion of workers relative to non-workers in the population. in terms of age the working population is roughly that between 15 and 64 years of age. this working age group must support itself as well as those outside this age group i.e. children and elderly people who are unable to work and are therefore dependents. changes in the age structure due ...
Competition refresher
Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 2 if they remain unemployed then they are unable to earn at all and become dependents rather than earners. thus changing age structure by itself cannot guarantee any benefits unless it is properly utilised through planned development. the real problem is in defining the dependency ratio as the ratio of the non-working age to working-age population rather than the ratio of nonworkers to workers. the difference ...
Competition refresher
Buy and subscribe hereCompetition refresher the effect of demographic trends on the dependency ratio defined in terms of age groups is quite visible. the total dependency ratio fell from 79 in 1970 to 64 in 2005. but the process is likely to extend well into this century with the age-based dependency ratio projected to fall to 48 in 2025 because of continued fall in the proportion of children and then rise to 50 by 2050 because of an increase in the proportion of the aged Read More....
Competition refresher Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 3 the problem however is employment data from the national sample survey studies of 1999-2000 and from the 2001 census of india reveal a sharp fall in the rate of employment generation creation of new jobs across both rural and urban areas. this is true for the young as well. the rate of growth of employment in the 15-30 age group which stood at around 2.4 per cent a year between 1987 and 1994 for both rural a... Competition refresher Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 4 the sex ratio is an important indicator of gender balance in the population. as mentioned in the section on concepts earlier historically the sex ratio has been slightly in favour of females that is the number of females per 1000 males has generally been somewhat higher than 1000. however india has had a declining sex-ratio for more than a century as is clear from table 3. from 972 females per 1000 males at ...