{ "format": "india-by-the-numbers.series.v1", "id": "world/demography", "name": "Population, fertility and working age", "hub": "World", "topic": "Population and migration", "moduleIds": [ "demography" ], "url": "https://data.indiadispatch.com/world/population", "period": "2024", "periodKey": "2024", "latest": { "formattedValue": "1.45 billion" }, "source": { "name": "World Bank", "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/country/india" }, "numericValue": 1450935791, "unit": "count", "measure": "population", "cadence": "Annual", "version": "c8bb5c8ba356e170a5ad5bb07d5a64f716bba51b25fcb969f246ca887c37df81", "dateModified": "2026-10-05T05:33:24.257Z", "coverage": "1960/2024", "notes": [ "The table retains the source’s published periods. Missing observations are not zero and have not been interpolated.", "Annual population, fertility and working-age shares. These are historical estimates, not population projections." ], "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "scope": "India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text" }, "sourceRights": "Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.", "attribution": "India by the numbers, Population, fertility and working age, 2024, https://data.indiadispatch.com/world/population. Source: World Bank.", "valueRepresentation": "Table cells are the publication's formatted observations, with units retained. Missing observations are not zero. 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"54.88%" ] }, { "id": "1970", "cells": [ "1970", "545.86 million", "5.624", "54.98%" ] }, { "id": "1971", "cells": [ "1971", "558.1 million", "5.565", "55.07%" ] }, { "id": "1972", "cells": [ "1972", "570.48 million", "5.482", "55.16%" ] }, { "id": "1973", "cells": [ "1973", "583.47 million", "5.402", "55.25%" ] }, { "id": "1974", "cells": [ "1974", "597.04 million", "5.325", "55.35%" ] }, { "id": "1975", "cells": [ "1975", "611.31 million", "5.195", "55.49%" ] }, { "id": "1976", "cells": [ "1976", "625.86 million", "5.13", "55.64%" ] }, { "id": "1977", "cells": [ "1977", "640.8 million", "5.007", "55.8%" ] }, { "id": "1978", "cells": [ "1978", "655.73 million", "4.888", "55.96%" ] }, { "id": "1979", "cells": [ "1979", "671.16 million", "4.808", "56.11%" ] }, { "id": "1980", "cells": [ "1980", "687.35 million", "4.775", "56.26%" ] }, { "id": "1981", "cells": [ "1981", "703.7 million", "4.698", "56.36%" ] }, { "id": "1982", "cells": [ "1982", "720.31 million", "4.62", "56.45%" ] }, { "id": "1983", "cells": [ "1983", "737.37 million", "4.565", "56.55%" ] }, { "id": "1984", "cells": [ "1984", "754.88 million", "4.516", "56.65%" ] }, { "id": "1985", "cells": [ "1985", "772.65 million", "4.432", "56.73%" ] }, { "id": "1986", "cells": [ "1986", "790.69 million", "4.399", "56.82%" ] }, { "id": "1987", "cells": [ "1987", "808.93 million", "4.311", "56.93%" ] }, { "id": "1988", "cells": [ "1988", "827.34 million", "4.222", "57.07%" ] }, { "id": "1989", "cells": [ "1989", "846.04 million", "4.132", "57.23%" ] }, { "id": "1990", "cells": [ "1990", "864.97 million", "4.045", "57.4%" ] }, { "id": "1991", "cells": [ "1991", "883.93 million", "3.959", "57.59%" ] }, { "id": "1992", "cells": [ "1992", "902.96 million", "3.877", "57.79%" ] }, { "id": "1993", "cells": [ "1993", "922.12 million", "3.799", "58%" ] }, { "id": "1994", "cells": [ "1994", "941.16 million", "3.723", "58.22%" ] }, { "id": "1995", "cells": [ "1995", "960.3 million", "3.651", "58.47%" ] }, { "id": "1996", "cells": [ "1996", "979.68 million", "3.582", "58.75%" ] }, { "id": "1997", "cells": [ "1997", "999.13 million", "3.514", "59.05%" ] }, { "id": "1998", "cells": [ "1998", "1.02 billion", "3.446", "59.37%" ] }, { "id": "1999", "cells": [ "1999", "1.04 billion", "3.383", "59.7%" ] }, { "id": "2000", "cells": [ "2000", "1.06 billion", "3.35", "60.04%" ] }, { "id": "2001", "cells": [ "2001", "1.08 billion", "3.303", "60.37%" ] }, { "id": "2002", "cells": [ "2002", "1.1 billion", "3.217", "60.7%" ] }, { "id": "2003", "cells": [ "2003", "1.12 billion", "3.122", "61.04%" ] }, { "id": "2004", "cells": [ "2004", "1.14 billion", "3.046", "61.39%" ] }, { "id": "2005", "cells": [ "2005", "1.15 billion", "2.958", "61.76%" ] }, { "id": "2006", "cells": [ "2006", "1.17 billion", "2.867", "62.15%" ] }, { "id": "2007", "cells": [ "2007", "1.19 billion", "2.775", "62.55%" ] }, { "id": "2008", "cells": [ "2008", "1.21 billion", "2.711", "62.94%" ] }, { "id": "2009", "cells": [ "2009", "1.23 billion", "2.674", "63.32%" ] }, { "id": "2010", "cells": [ "2010", "1.24 billion", "2.598", "63.72%" ] }, { "id": "2011", "cells": [ "2011", "1.26 billion", "2.532", "64.11%" ] }, { "id": "2012", "cells": [ "2012", "1.28 billion", "2.47", "64.49%" ] }, { "id": "2013", "cells": [ "2013", "1.3 billion", "2.399", "64.88%" ] }, { "id": "2014", "cells": [ "2014", "1.31 billion", "2.293", "65.26%" ] }, { "id": "2015", "cells": [ "2015", "1.33 billion", "2.289", "65.62%" ] }, { "id": "2016", "cells": [ "2016", "1.34 billion", "2.284", "65.97%" ] }, { "id": "2017", "cells": [ "2017", "1.36 billion", "2.193", "66.33%" ] }, { "id": "2018", "cells": [ "2018", "1.37 billion", "2.184", "66.65%" ] }, { "id": "2019", "cells": [ "2019", "1.39 billion", "2.12", "66.94%" ] }, { "id": "2020", "cells": [ "2020", "1.4 billion", "2.047", "67.24%" ] }, { "id": "2021", "cells": [ "2021", "1.41 billion", "2.014", "67.55%" ] }, { "id": "2022", "cells": [ "2022", "1.43 billion", "1.994", "67.81%" ] }, { "id": "2023", 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