The twin demographic dividends?

News of India’s fatality rate at 2.25% and recovery rate at 64% has prompted me to choose this for today’s post ! Indeed the news cheers all.

India is a country with a high demographic dividend with one of the youngest populations in the world.India’s working age population (people between 15 and 64 years of age ) has now grown larger than the dependent population (below 14 and above 65 years) 

The term demographic dividend means the economic growth potential as a result of shifts in a population’s age structure.Now probably the nation is blessed with another kind of demographic dividend in terms of immunity (vital for potential health).the young population has contributed to.

Apart from various measures adopted, a number of factors like the age of the affected, that of succumbed, morbidity factors, region they (patients) belong to, gender, blood groups, time lapse between the detection and initiation of remedies, food habits etc are believed to play key role in this.The pandemic is a great scientific (research ) besides an an economic, opportunity ! The possibility that there are a large number of young asymptomatic cases whose immunity dividend might have contributed substantially to this result can not be ruled out ! So the data base created with the data of infected  patients split up into 5 year bands from 18 to 80 years and the detailed analytics of the data on the basis of a host of factors felt fit helps to have an idea of the immunity profile of  population based on demographics .This would help immensely in the management of dreaded infections if any in future too ! 

Can it be assumed  that India has twin demographic dividends; one linked to economy and the other to immunity, is going to be a matter of interest.

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