'India has made many contributions to world culture. Perhaps the greatest is the ideal of non-violence.
Europe's greatest contribution is the scientific method. If these can be married, their offspring may raise mankind to a new level.'
—JBS Haldane, What I Require from Life: Writings on Science and Life from J.B.S. Haldane (2009)
Population of India in 5-year
birth cohorts: 1950-2010
Notes: The top black line labelled "0-4" shows the number of children in each year who were aged less than 5.
The blue line labelled "5-9" shows the number who were aged 5 to 9 (ie, 5 years older), and so on down the graph.
The number of children aged less than 5 has been drifting downward since a peak of 128 million in 1997.
There are about as many children aged less than 5 in India as there are people in Japan (where, in a trivial
coincidence, the population
is also drifting downward).
Notes: The top black line labelled "0-4" shows the number of children in each year who were aged less than 5. The blue line labelled "5-9" shows the number who were aged 5 to 9 (ie, 5 years older), and so on down the graph.
The number of children aged less than 5 has been drifting downward since a peak of 128 million in 1997. There are about as many children aged less than 5 in India as there are people in Japan (where, in a trivial coincidence, the population is also drifting downward).
Source of data: United Nations Population Division, "World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision".