A big study in The Lancet challenges widely-held Indian fears of ruinous ‘population explosion’

#IndianPopulationGrowth #DemographicDividend

*Correction: TFR is not a percentage but rather the number of children who would be born per woman.

Population explosion fears have dominated our national debate for years. A big new study in The Lancet, however, throws up counter-intuitive findings on this. In episode #534 of Cut The Clutter, Shekhar Gupta unpacks the study on India & its neighbours’ population projections, and implications.


Read Lancet's study here: https://www.thelancet.com/action/show...


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