The gender demography of India is set to achieve dramatic progress in the coming years and by 2036, the figures again brought into focus by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI). Life expectancy for both sexes has been increasing: male life expectancy was 68 in 2011 and 73 in 2036, while females’ was 72 and 76, respectively; sex ratio prefers female, 943/1000 in 2011, but projected to increase to 952 in 2036. At the same time, India’s population is expected to rise to 1. GDP had risen to 9 trillion dollars by that year and had an oil consumption of 52 billion by that year.
The report put up in ‘Women and Men in India 2023 ‘, the 25th issue of the Ministry highlights demographic trends and changes. It predicts the percentage of women in a total population is likely to rise from 48 down from 49. 5% to 48% in 2011 in 2011, overall, Aboriginal People’s one year mortality rate rose to its highest level of 48 percent from 5 percent. However, the figure for the people under fifteen years of age is expected to decrease, presumably because of low birth rates. However, on the same note, the population within the age group of 60 years and above is foreseen to go up during the same period.
The report also notes decline in age specific fertility rate that is 20-24 years for female where the figure is now 135. In 2016, it was four and decreased to one hundred and thirteen in the following year. The same decrease of the ASFR was also found in the age group 25-29, from 166 to 139. However, there was a slight rise in the ASFR of the 35-39 age groups to 32. 6 during the same period, which mean there is a large number of women who wish to, have children later in their life in order to have a steady career.
Adolescent fertility rate remained high with 33 percent for the illiterate persons. Nine were unable to read or write while 11 were able to read and write. It also achieved reduction of MMR up to 97 in every hundred thousand of live births in the year 2018-20 towards the Sustainable Development Goal target of seventy in every hundred thousand of live births by the year 2030. Also, the IMR of boys and girls combined was expected to be 28 per 1,000 live births in 2020, and the under 5-MR has been claimed to have declined from 43 in the FY 2015/16 to 32 in 2020.
