Is India going to miss some more of its potential demographic dividend?

For the country to fully reap its demographic dividend, people in the working age should actually be working, and those working should have proper education and skills, writes T N Ninan

Every country in the course of its development sees drops in its birth and death rates. Since the two drops take place at different speeds and the death rate falls before the birth rate, the transition period is marked by high population growth before things stabilise. The transition also sees a change in the age-wise population mix: The percentage of people in the working age (usually taken at 15-65 years) begins to rise, peaks and then falls.
 
If a greater percentage of the total population is working, it gives the economy a boost in its income, savings and productivity,