India Population Report

K. S. James is Director and Senior Professor at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Deemed University, Mumbai. He works extensively on demographic changes with focus on population and development and ageing issues. He has published widely on demographic transition and demographic dividend in leading journals such as Science, Lancet Global Health, Social Science and Medicine, Population Studies, BMC Public Health, Ageing International, Ageing and Society, Journal of Ageing and Health, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Maternal and Child Health Journal, and Economic and Political Weekly. T. V. Sekher is Professor at International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. He is trained in Demography and Sociology and his areas of research interests lie in social demography, gender issues and population ageing. He was Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellow at Cornell University and is the Principal Investigator of Longitudinal Ageing Study in India.

• 1. Introduction. India's Population Change: Critical Issues K. S. James and T. V. Sekher; Part I. The Demographic Changes and Challenges: 2. Demographic Dividend in India: What Do We Know? K. S. James, P. M. Kulkarni and Md Juel Rana; 3. Fertility and Family Planning: Explaining Transition and Thinking about Post-Transitional Regimes Chander Shekhar, Srinivas Goli and Rakesh Mishra; 4. Mortality and Epidemiological Transition: India and Its Concerns Srinivas Goli, Babul Hossain, Akansha Singh, K. S. James; 5. Gender Roles and Help Seeking among Women Experiencing Marital Violence in India Harihar Sahoo and Shireen J. Jejeebhoy; 6. Social Security Schemes for Elderly in India: Awareness, Utilization and Barriers T. V. Sekher and Sangeeta Gupta; 7. Internal Migration and Temporary Labour Circulation in India R. B. Bhagat and Kunal Keshri; 8. Data Quality Indicators from the NFHS: A Few Observations Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, Pooja Arora and Kajori Banerjee; Part II. Interlinkages for Better Health: 9. Malnutrition Status of Women, Children and Adolescents in India and Its Relation with Educational Attainment Sayeed Unisa, Preeti Dhillon, Reshmi R. S., Ranjan Kumar Prusty, Abhishek Saraswat, and Anjula Srivastava; 10. SDG Indicators on Maternal Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities in India S. K. Singh and Fred Arnold; 11. Localizing SDGs: Measuring Progress of SDGs in Districts of India Sanjay K. Mohanty and Basant Kumar Panda; 12. Urbanization and Housing Infrastructure in Urban India Archana K. Roy, Dipanwita Chakravarty, Sapana Ngangbam and Nawaj Sarif; 13. Occupational Health of Selected Industry Workers in India: A Review Rahul Rajak, Priya Maurya and Aparajita Chattopadhyay.