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This youth bulge might reflect the peak of India&#039;s &amp;lsquo;demographic dividend&#039;, as fertility declines and India&#039;s population begins to age.
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In 2001, people aged 15-19 were, in comparison, 9.7 per cent of the population. The United Nations&#039; Department of Economic and Social Affairs&#039; latest World Population Prospects shows that India&#039;s 15-19 aged cohort will peak in 2015 after which it will begin to decline as a proportion of the population.
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&amp;quot;The southern States reached replacement levels of fertility by 1995, but the northern States still have relatively high fertility. So the peak of the 15-19 age cohort will have already passed in the southern States, but in the northern States, this cohort could be at its peak,&amp;quot; Dr. P. Arokiasamy, demographer and professor in the Department of Development Studies at the Mumbai-based International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), told The Hindu.
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This Lok Sabha election is likely to reflect the peak of India's electoral demographic dividend with 10% of voters likely to be first-time voters, a combination of electoral and demographic data shows. As fertility begins to decline - faster in the south than in the north - this election may mark the highest ever political impact of first-time voters.
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2014 Lok Sabha polls will see most first-time voters-Rukmini S

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