Citation :

Satyendra Nath Chakrabartty, 2025. "Population Age Structure and Socio-Economic Transformation: Challenges in India" International Journal of Community Empowerment & Society Administration [IJCESA]  Volume 2, Issue 1: 6-15.

Abstract :

Economic and social transformations of a country depend heavily on population age-structure and its growth dynamics along with impact on policies adopted and generation of opportunities.The paper describes major socio-economic-demographic consequences of India based on changing demography with emphasis on measurement aspects of demographic dividends (DV) and suggests indices like active participation index (API), comprehensive e-participation index (CEPI), index of participation rate of females (I_FLFPR) combining relevant chosen indicators in ratio or ordinal scales. The proposed indices reflecting social, economic and political effectiveness of the country across time and space satisfy desired properties and enable parametric statistical analysis. Linear regression equation of I_FLFPR on 𝐺𝐷𝑃 of a country and regression of DV on I_FLFPRshow effect of FLFPR on socio-economic growth. A country needs to focus on the factors that can foster the progress during transition from favourable working-age population (WAP) to increasing share of elderly population. WAP of India with rising trend of income, educational attainments empower the citizens to participate in e-participation and active participation in economic, social, and political effectiveness of the country. Attempts can be made to estimate the required net birth rate ensuring WAP is around 59% and initiate policies accordingly.

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Keywords :

Population Age-Structure, Demographic Dividend, Female Labour Force Participation Rate, Composite Index, Normal Distribution, Participations.