India, Now The Most Populous Country: Demographic Advantage Or Disaster? | Insight | Full Episode

India is set to overtake China as the most populous country. At a time when China is facing an aging and declining population, India has one of the fastest growing and youngest population in the world.

But the population boom is a double-edged sword. While it can be the driver of growth for the coming decades, it can also be a drain on resources and the catalyst for structural failures.

Even as the vibrant tech sector is booming, large swathes of its 1.4 billion people still live in poverty, deprived of education and economic opportunity.

Will India's population growth be a demographic dividend or a population pitfall?

0:00 India now the most populous nation
1:36 Rise of startups: India's promising youth
10:11 India's population growth: advantage or disaster?
14:57 High unemployment despite population growth
23:25 Rising population = rising poverty?
30:09 High birth rates and malnutrition plague India's poor
36:07 Population pressures on the environment
39:24 Women still disadvantaged in India
43:01 India’s falling fertility rates

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[templar]

Population growth means more people fighting for resources. More problem and struggles.

[ittakes-tango]

If you can't even feed your two or three children then you don't need to be educated to know having a fourth child is a big no.

[DipakBose-gehm]

It is shame and a disaster for us. The Population of India is now four times what it was in 1970s, but the resources are the same. The result is increasing poverty and unemployment.

[hannibal]

China which has the world's largest manufacturing is still suffering from a low employment rate of young people of age 18-24, I can hardly imagine how the Indian goverment solve this problem when they are facing a much larger amount of young populaion and much smaller manufacturing.

[salvinsam]

Funny thing is that many Indians on the Internet started congratulating each other for becoming superpower for surpassing china in population.🤦🏽‍♂️🤣👴🏽🤣

[maku]

Majority of us Indians live in villages n slums where the youth r uneducated and unskilled for today's jobs so this population growth will be a big problem for us in the future.

[nachattersingh]

In the age of automation and AI, big population, with no skills, means redundant population, a burden on economy.

[lestertorres]

India is a good example of what not to do with the population.... don't allow population to grow out of control.. solution one baby per family. Too late now!..🤔

[ziplock]

Unemployment rates are around 8% there. It means there are more jobless youth sitting there than the entire population of the UK. Dividends can't fall from the sky.

[bhagavangusidi]

For all non indians here, the documentary covers the places that are relatively much poor than the counterparts, the situation in west and south India is way different, you wouldn't know this, as documentaries only focus on showing the struggling side 😅

[Happiness.]

Western countries see India population as counter weight to China. But for the Indians it means more unemployment and hunger..as inflation remain high..lack of skills is the biggest threat to demographics dividends.

[worldpeaceplz]

India's lack of business morals and ethics need a LOT of improvement, too far behind countries like Vietnam and Singapore. Eagerness to succeed is not everything.

[SurfAngel]

The main thing that is holding back India is their caste system. The other thing is very few Indians are philanthropists. There are many Indians who are millionaires & billionaires but very few give back to their communities.

[rui__sm]

start up = indian call center scam lmao

[neiljia]

As a Chinese, I believe India can learn from the world, but it shouldn’t copy the Chinese model. Half of Chinese economy model is state driven urbanization. The state owns every piece of land, and the auction of one hectare land usage (not ownership) can make hundreds of millions of dollars revenue. The state can then use this money to fund infrastructures and public services and make the land more valuable. But for India, a country with the private sector holding most of the land, it’s harder for the state to break even on urbanization. An India problem needs an Indian solution.

[robezy]

What worries me for India is the bureaucracy hindering productivity. China shows what a race the demographic dividend is, to overcome the middle income trap, especially for large countries.

[mareacha]

As much as India is growing, as a country they also must have a sustainable, growing economy that addresses the migrant exodus. Countries such as Australia, Canada, USA etc, most migrants, especially international students, come from India. India needs to address the migrant exodus and make the country more attractive and livable to stay by addressing inequality and climate change

[hc]

The key is improving the quality of the population at TOP SPEED, by education, transportation, healthcare and all types of public services. If successive generations of Indian government manage to come up with wise and sustainable PLANNING, then the sky is the limit. If not, I fear India will slowly start to realise why China’s one child policy was so very wise after all …

[eddylau]

Huge young population needs advanced industries and infrastructure and education to turning it into advantage, or it’s nothing but a heavy burden to the economy. China suffered more than a half century to turning its population from burden to advantage, and now Chinese people are not willing to have more babies anymore once their income and life quality increased, just like any other developed countries did. So it’s still a biggest challenge for India so far, with such huge population..

[beckyanderson]

My country suffers the same thing as India: huge population with low quality. The thing is, people who should have more children (weathy people who are able to provide children with good education and stuff) want less and less children. Meanwhile, poor and selfish parents keep having more children as an investment and retirement plan. The result is, even though the population growing fast and we have a lot of young people, they are not educated, very poor and most of them end up working in factories and keep being poor for generations