India’s population leap: 5 takeaways, why China is in a sulk, & why growing numbers needn’t be scary

#CutTheClutter #Population #IndiaChina
The UN population report says India is set to surpass China in population, but why is Beijing brooding (and being borderline racist) over this instead of celebrating? In Ep 1217 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains key takeaways from the UN report, and the demographic shifts India & the world are likely to see.

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[coldram]

My favorite line about India “India has disappointed both optimists and pessimists same time”

[sayantanbasu]

Having a big population is not important.Having a population who can self support themselves and their family is more important since that will add value to the society and economy as a whole.Having more population which thrives on subsidy and govt support will just add to numbers and not to the economy and GDP of the country.

[J_X]

China is correct. The quality of their workers is definitely improving, which will propel economic growth, despite a decline in sheer numbers.

[DILIPRAJAME]

Internal migration is already on. My district is in Andhra and its a dry one. Even here, i am started seeing people from Bihar and UP. They are here for permanent settlement.

[GururajBN]

One negative side of the population growth in India which you haven't referred to is that low per capita income of India, inspite of growing economy. We are still behind even smaller European countries such as Georgia or Moldavia.

[jdla]

What Chinese spokesperson said about quality of population I feel he meant that the education, health and skills level of an average Chinese is better than an average Indian. I don’t think we can argue with that reality as the HR quality of two countries is readily available.

[suresh_elonbro]

india has a labor force participation rate of 40. china 70. having more people doesn't mean anything if they are not productive.

[cyrilphilip]

Old age homes are already in full swing in Kerala since late 90s.

[traveller]

We are only talking numbers and compare ourselves with China only when convenient. The quality of life, infrastructure, health services, education which China is giving to its Citizens is something India can't even think of . Simply numbers are not enough. We should have the means to make productive use of the numbers. China's politicians and thinkers are trying to get a status ahead of the most developed nations. Our ruling party is busy rewriting history and people are happily following. Its obvious that, even respected news outlets like Print are of late treading very carefully and very guarded on what they write or say.

[acenarula]

If the comment by the Chinese minister is looked objectively rather than from a racial context - what he is implying is that only the size of the population doesn’t matter, but how that population is able to contribute to the nation is what matters.

In the context of this video as well - the population of all current emerging economies will start to reduce going forward, means the dependence on efficiency of numbers rather than the numbers itself will begin to matter.

This means the focus in India has to be on how we can take the population dividend and give it the right opportunities so that it has a multiplier effect - big population, efficiently deployed-> strides in growth.

So I completely disagree with Shekhar and the team that the remarks from the Chinese should be dismissed as purely racially motivated.

[madandu]

Shekhar-ji, population-growth is always scary for India being extremely overpopulated.
Irony is poor-states has high-birth rate while politicians are busy in caste/religion politics.
Indian fertility-rate may fall faster in coming decades due to:
1. High-cost of living, education, 2. More women joining workforce,
3. Water-scarcity, climate issues, 4. Preference for alternate-lifestyles.

[SeeLasSee]

I’m pretty sure that the CCP think that Han Chinese count twice compared to all varieties of Indian.

[darshilmashru]

India - 2100 - 109 crores.

Depending on the community that becomes a majority by that time, it's hard to say whether India will remain India then.

[gahlanprash]

Don't know about why people produce like rabbits. But in my village near Noida, a particular community vowed to produce more because Yogi defeated akhilesh in elections.

[TejasJain]

I think a follow up detailed episode - which talks about how India can leverage its young workforce effectively - is due! Pak and Nigeria are two great examples of what happens when the policies do not keep up with population growth! Second, there is a good possibility that Indians might serve as viable replacement in countries like South Korea, Baltic nations and dozen others which are suffering from a dire shortage of the necessary workforce to support their economies - and such migrations can drastically skew these projections.

[robinsonfrancis]

China is not sulking. Just look at its achievements on military and economic front.

[priyanks]

I love what Rudyard from Whatifalthist says:

'India is always the exception to every rule'

[aditya]

"Politicians have a lot of time when they are out of power" .. 😂 legend..

[dhanjeepandey]

Population must be properly managed by citizen, government, media, un, international organisation, civil society, private and public body, companies, corporations, religious holistic and real way..to achieve global goals of

[rishiraaj.]

Big Population - Big Problems If Not Handled Well. 😕