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India To Add 179 Million People To Its Working Age Population By 2025: Report
India is projected to add at least 179 million people to its working-age population by 2045, which can be a significant tailwind for economic growth, particularly as demographics in several parts of the world turn unfavourable, a new report has said.
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India To Have One Of The Largest Working-Age Populations By 2030: McKinsey
India, China and Indonesia will be three of the five economies with the world's largest working-age populations among G20 countries by 2030.
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Hikikomori: 5 Points On Phenomenon That Has Left 1.5 Million Japanese In Isolation
A recent survey has revealed that 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are living as recluses. A fifth of them cited COVID-19 as the main reason for their withdrawal in the government survey, known as hikikomori.
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Youths Need To Be Watchful Of What They're Eating: Expert Suggests
With more than 62 % in the working-age group (15 -59 years) and more than 54 per cent of its total population under 25 years of age, India is now one of the world's youngest nations.
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World Population To Shrink After 2050, Fastest In These Nations: Study
The world's population will likely shrink after 2050, according to an analysis, a potential threat to the global economy as declining numbers of working-age people hurt production and tax rolls.
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Advantage For India As Work-Age Population "Bulge" To Last Till 2055: Venkaiah Naidu
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said the "next 30 years" are crucial for India in terms of the demographic dividend as the "bulge" in the working-age population of the country will last till 2055.
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India Set To Overtake Japan As No. 3 Economy By 2030: Report
The South Asian giant was seen as "among the most striking" gainers in the bank's long-term rankings, leap-frogging Germany and Japan largely on account of the economy's rapid growth and a rising working-age population that's the envy of an aging developed world.
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Opinion: Two-Child Policy for China is Too Little, Too Late
When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country's economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in Chinese media, the government may be ready to relax the notorious "one-child" policy, in existence since the late 1970s, and allow Chinese parents to have two kids.
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China Workers Decline as Demographic Time Bomb Ticks
China's working-age population continued to fall in 2014, the government said on Tuesday, as Beijing struggles to address a spiralling demographic challenge made worse by its one-child policy.
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Britain to Freeze Welfare Payment Amounts for Two Years
British finance minister George Osborne said on Monday that there would be no increases in state benefits for the working-age population for two years to save £3.0 billion (3.8 billion euros, $4.9 billion) as part of a squeeze on welfare spending.
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India tries to lure foreign colleges to cash in demographic dividend
On the cusp of a boom in its working-age population, India is racing against time to raise the quality of its education to prevent a demographic dividend turning into a demographic curse.
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India To Add 179 Million People To Its Working Age Population By 2025: Report
India is projected to add at least 179 million people to its working-age population by 2045, which can be a significant tailwind for economic growth, particularly as demographics in several parts of the world turn unfavourable, a new report has said.
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India To Have One Of The Largest Working-Age Populations By 2030: McKinsey
India, China and Indonesia will be three of the five economies with the world's largest working-age populations among G20 countries by 2030.
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Hikikomori: 5 Points On Phenomenon That Has Left 1.5 Million Japanese In Isolation
A recent survey has revealed that 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are living as recluses. A fifth of them cited COVID-19 as the main reason for their withdrawal in the government survey, known as hikikomori.
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Youths Need To Be Watchful Of What They're Eating: Expert Suggests
With more than 62 % in the working-age group (15 -59 years) and more than 54 per cent of its total population under 25 years of age, India is now one of the world's youngest nations.
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World Population To Shrink After 2050, Fastest In These Nations: Study
The world's population will likely shrink after 2050, according to an analysis, a potential threat to the global economy as declining numbers of working-age people hurt production and tax rolls.
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Advantage For India As Work-Age Population "Bulge" To Last Till 2055: Venkaiah Naidu
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said the "next 30 years" are crucial for India in terms of the demographic dividend as the "bulge" in the working-age population of the country will last till 2055.
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India Set To Overtake Japan As No. 3 Economy By 2030: Report
The South Asian giant was seen as "among the most striking" gainers in the bank's long-term rankings, leap-frogging Germany and Japan largely on account of the economy's rapid growth and a rising working-age population that's the envy of an aging developed world.
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Opinion: Two-Child Policy for China is Too Little, Too Late
When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country's economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in Chinese media, the government may be ready to relax the notorious "one-child" policy, in existence since the late 1970s, and allow Chinese parents to have two kids.
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China Workers Decline as Demographic Time Bomb Ticks
China's working-age population continued to fall in 2014, the government said on Tuesday, as Beijing struggles to address a spiralling demographic challenge made worse by its one-child policy.
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Britain to Freeze Welfare Payment Amounts for Two Years
British finance minister George Osborne said on Monday that there would be no increases in state benefits for the working-age population for two years to save £3.0 billion (3.8 billion euros, $4.9 billion) as part of a squeeze on welfare spending.
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India tries to lure foreign colleges to cash in demographic dividend
On the cusp of a boom in its working-age population, India is racing against time to raise the quality of its education to prevent a demographic dividend turning into a demographic curse.
