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Elderly in study means all those people who are of the age of 60 years and above. "According to the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections for India and States 2011-2036, there are nearly 138 million (13.8 crore) elderly persons in India in 2021 comprising 67 million males and 71 million females," the NSO study 'Elderly in India 2021' said.
The National Statistical Office (NSO) also stated that elderly males have outnumbered females in the last two decades (till 2021)
When Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath chose the occasion of World Population Day on July 11 to announce a new state population policy, there normally should have been no quarrel about it. After all, the state is India’s most populous, harbouring nearly 200 million people (as per Census 2011) or 17 per cent of India’s population. If it were to become a nation, Uttar Pradesh would have the fifth largest population in the world. So instead of welcoming a policy to control the state’s burgeoning population, why was there such a storm over Yogi’s announcement? Sure, some of the...
Times Face-off: Do we need population control measures? © Provided by The Times of India With UP, Assam moving towards two-child policies, a debate on whether population control measures work, and do we really??need them? FOR -Sidharth Nath Singh Any change in the population policy of the country’s most populous state is bound to be a big deal, but it is not a surprising one. With 240 million people, Uttar Pradesh has 16% of India’s total population and is home to every sixth Indian. If it was a separate country, it would be the fifth largest in the world by population, just behind Chin...
FOR -Sidharth Nath Singh Any change in the population policy of the country’s most populous state is bound to be a big deal, but it is not a surprising one. With 240 million people, Uttar Pradesh has 16% of India’s total population and is home to every sixth Indian. If it was a separate country, it would be the fifth largest in the world by population, just behind China, India, US and Indonesia, and bigger than Pakistan and Brazil. We, as a country, have already been warned of a ‘population explosion’ and it is deemed that the continuous increase in the state’s population will res...