Bery, Suman
Reaping India’s demographic dividend
- Yojana: A Development Monthly
- 68(12), Dec, 2024: p.6-10
India is at a unique crossroads where it has the potential to leverage its demographic dividend. With a large proportion of people in the working. age bracket, the nation has the ability to greatly expand its economy. The economic survey 2023-24, gives an approximation of the jobs the economy needs to generate over years’ it the share of agriculture in workforce gradually declining from 45-08 per cent in 2023 to one-fourth in 2047. It is estimated that the Indian economy needs tolerate and average of nearly around 8 million employment opportunities in the non-farm sector until 2030 to care to the rising workforce. – Reproduced