The 2011 Census is likely to reveal — for the first time — a decline in the country's toddler numbers, mirroring a general drop in fertility rates. Indications of it are there in the United Nations' latest World Population Prospects, which projects a 1.4 million reduction in India's population below four years between 2000 and 2010, and even sharper falls thereafter
With toddler numbers coming down and exerting downward pressure on succeeding age cohorts as well, the ratio of dependents to the working-age population is expected to fall to 56 per cent in 2010 and to below 50 per cent by 2020 — where it will remain for the next three decades .
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