Examining Demographic Disparities: A Comparative Analysis of Age Structure Changes Across Indian States (1990-2020).

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This paper attempts to give a comparative perspective on the age structural change and demographic transition in India and its States. Data required for the present study on the indicators namely Birth Rate and Death Rate, life expectancy at birth, and Total fertility rate, has been collected mainly from various publications of the census report and sample registration system (SRS) of the Registrar General of India for the 30 years starting from 1990 to the year 2020. Results of the present analysis indicate that India and its major states of different regions are well in progress in their demographic transition and are at various stages of their demographic transition based on the progress made in their fertility and mortality transitions as a result of different progress made in their health and socio-economic development. Consequently, it is seen that while some of the states are at a very advanced stage of the Demographic transition some other states are seen lagging behind them. States in the South of In

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