It sounds bad for India, but isn't really because birth rates have been in free fall (only since independence, no thanks to Britain) and have recently dropped b

It sounds bad for India, but isn't really because birth rates have been in free fall (only since independence, no thanks to Britain) and have recently dropped below replacement [1]. In 4 decades or less, the population will peak and start decreasing. India can reap the benefits of the demographic dividend, but it remains to be seen if it actually will... https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$filter$dimensions$country$country$/$in@=ind;;;;;;&encoding$y$data$concept=children_per_woman_total_fertility&space@=country&=time;;&scale$type=linear&domain:null&zoomed:null;;;;;;&chart-type=linechart&url=v1 https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...