Chinese official media said that although India is the largest country in the world, it cannot enjoy the demographic dividend at the level of economic and social development.
The Guangming Daily published a published on Thursday (June 22). Why is it difficult for India to achieve "demographic dividends"?According to the article, although the Western high -profile hype of India "the theory of" demographic dividends ", India's title of the world's largest country's largest country seems to be extremely low -key.The reason is that the "demographic dividend" in the sense of population is not the same as the "demographic dividend" at the level of economic and social development.
The article states that if it is impossible to systematically promote the governance and level of education, employment, medical, and social equality, it cannot effectively solve employment problems.It may become "population liabilities".
The article believes that for India, it does not have the conditions to fully release the demographic dividend in the short term.
The article states that as much as 29%of children in India fail to complete the entire basic education, and the laborer with low quality will suppress the effective use of labor resources, and the distribution of human resources will face serious imbalances, which will all will be facing serious imbalances.As a result, the disappearance of the demographic dividend.
The article also states that unlike the modernization process of East Asian economies such as China, the Indian economic growth model is the service industry.Although this model has certain rationality and inevitability, it is not enough to lose the hearts of the people, and it is difficult to create enough employment opportunities.
The article finally wrote that although India entered the period of the demographic dividend window, many measures have also been taken to try to harvest the demographic dividend, but subject to the imbalance of regional development, lag in education and medical care, profound gender discrimination, and religious contradictions undercurrentMultiple factors such as surge and employment are difficult to improve. To truly harvest the demographic dividend, there is still a long way to go.
According to the 2023 World Population Status Report released by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the Indian population reached 1.4286 billion this year, and it has become the world's most populous country, 2.9 million more than China.
