LONDON, Aug 1:
India’s population growth rate is highly overestimated by existing models, say scientists who suggest that accounting for the diversity and differences in the levels of education among people can help arrive at more accurate projections.
Accurate population projections could help India and its workforce catch up to more developed Asian countries with higher GDP per capita, researchers suggest. “India is an extremely heterogeneous sub-continent. Simply because it is one nation, unlike composite Europe, it should not be treated as a uniform entity,” said Wolfgang Lutz, the World Population programme director at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
“The forecasts for India over the coming decades strongly depend on which sources of heterogeneity are explicitly included in the model,” said Lutz. (PTI)
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