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New Data Byte: Women's absence from India's workforce is most evident in their 20s, by @akwaghmare The share of people in an age group who are either working or looking for work is known as the labour force participation rate (LFPR). The LFPR is an important indicator to measure whether most adults are in the productive economy. In India, female labour force participation is far lower than that of males at every age. Across the world, labour force participation rises with age once adults complete their education, and then falls in old age. This is certainly the case for men in India. Men's LFPR increases sharply from the teenage years until the mid-twenties, and remains at nearly 100% during the prime working years. It then reduces slowly until the age of 60, and sharply after that.  The likelihood of an Indian woman being in the labour force (two in five) is half of that of an Indian man (four in five). In India's Periodic Labour Force Survey, women report household duties, including child care and chores, as the main reason for staying out of the labour force. But the gap between male and female labour force participation rates is widest in their twenties and thirties. The main reason for this demographic blip in women's labour participation is child-bearing and child-rearing. About 70% of births in India are now to women in their twenties. #Jobs #Women #Employment #Work #India #DataForIndia

New on @dataforin: @akwaghmare's work on India's graduates - what they study for their undergraduate programmes, what parts of the country they come from, and how all of this is changing. dataforindia.com/graduates/

Meat is widely consumed in India. Four in five Indians aged 15-49 consumed some form of animal-sourced protein (excluding dairy) as of 2021. The National Family Health Survey asks a representative sample of respondents if they have ever consumed any of the three broad categories of animal proteins - eggs, fish and chicken/meat, and their frequency of consumption. Eggs are the most commonly consumed animal protein (by 78% of Indians), followed by chicken/meat (75%) and fish (72%). The consumption of meat is more common among lower-income groups. Nearly nine out of ten people belonging to the poorest 20% of India's population eat meat, compared to about seven out of ten among the wealthiest 20%. This difference is larger among women, especially in rural areas. Among women belonging to the wealthiest group in rural India, just over half eat meat, whereas three-quarters of men do. Among meat-eaters, the frequency of consumption is high. Most people who eat meat consume it at least once a week. Both the share of meat consumers and their frequency of consumption are higher in urban areas. #Meat #Chicken #Health #India #DataForIndia

India has the world's largest emigrant population, accounting for 6% of all international migrants globally as of 2024. According to the United Nations, an international migrant is someone who has moved across an international border and changed their usual place of residence, typically living in the new country continuously for at least 12 months. Out-migrants are also known as emigrants. The international migrant stock, as measured by the UN, refers to the total number of international migrants in a country at a given time. Between 1990 and 2024, the migrant stock of Indian origin nearly tripled from 6.5 million to 18.5 million. A significant portion of India's out-migrant population is the historical legacy of the Partition of 1947. Pakistan is still home to 1.6 million Indian-born individuals, making up nearly 9% of all Indians living abroad in 2024. However, as the Partition generation ages and dies out, this number has been declining. Outside of Pakistan, Indian emigration remains concentrated within Asia, particularly in West Asia, where half of all Indian emigrants live. Additionally, one-quarter of Indian out-migrants live in North America, a share that has grown over time, as has emigration to Australia and New Zealand. #Migration #Immigration #Emigration #India #DataForIndia

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