India has the world’s largest youth population, As of March 1, 2021, population aged 15 to 29 years was approximately 365 million, about 27.2% of the total population. But median age is rising rapidly from 18 in 1970 to 28 in 2023
Why are youth not registering to vote?
As of January 1, 2025, India had approx 217 million registered voters, aged 18 to 29, about 21.9% of total electorate of 991 million
Why are youth not registering to vote?
But as per Election Commission, only a little over 18 million new voters (18 to 19 years), out of 49 mn, have been included in electoral rolls. Only38% have registered
What future are we creating for school dropouts?
School dropouts over the last 20 years in the age group 6-35 is77%(204 mn out of 265 mn children). For every one child in school, there are 0.8 school dropouts.
Youth supply is 400% more than demand
17 million people are added to non-farm sector supply every year. At best, India is creating 3-5 million jobs per year in this sector.
For every one person working, there’s one person idling
50% of the population (475 million) can work but are idling, though officially unemployed are only 35 million Why are 50% idling?
Nation of idling graduates
Over8 millionGraduates/Diploma/ITI pass out every year but we are creating less than 0.8 million(10%) graduate jobs.
Women’s too dropping out of work
While urban female workforce is declining, rural female workforce participation rate has also declined — from 33.9% to 20.1% in 2018 except during the pandemic.