Youthful India and the Education System
65 % of Indian population is under 35 and we have more than 50 % of people under 25, that means we are an amazingly young country. If we just take the age group from 10 to 19 then we find that there are 226 million Indians that are going through their school and are ready for higher education. Now this is something very amazing because it is happening at a time when the rest of the world is aging. The average age in India today is 27, and by 2030 the average age in Japan is going to be 47, in China it's going to be 43, Europe 46 and the youthful US 40 and India's average age is going to be 31. So we potentially have the people who are youthful, productive, dynamic and ready to work and transform the world. The kind of role that China played in the last generation could be ours in the next. The International Labor Organization has estimated that by 2025 we will have 116 million people in the age group of 20-24 and China will have only 96 million. We in India have the people but