India faces deepening demographic divide as it prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous country

Summary

Hannah Ellis-Petersen writing in the Guardian, makes the following points:

• The median Indian age is twenty-nine.
• The majority of India's population is unskilled.
• Youth unemployment is running at 23%.
• India currently has 1.39 Bn people, to China's 1.4 Bn.

References

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• NOV 2022 India's population growth slows as world reaches 8 billion-Reuters

Source Information: 

• Article Source: News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's Australia edition | The Guardian
• Media Check:  The Guardian Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)/     
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