Government of India, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, National Statistical Office, Social Statistics Division has come out with this great document about the Elderly in India.
The main chapters of interest are:
- Population and Vital Statistics
- Economic Status
- Health and Social Status
This publication, 5th in series, has been prepared with the objective of providing data help to policy and programme making for elderly population. Attempts have been made to cull out data on different aspects of elderly population from different sources and put them together at one place. Chapter-2 gives the details of the policies and programmes of Government of India for the welfare of elderly persons while Chapter-3, Chapter-4 and Chapter-5 provides the data on elderly population and certain vital statistics, economic status of elderly persons and health and social status as available from different data sources. Concepts and definitions for the terms used in the publication have also been included as Appendix.
This updated document would help researchers, policy makers, NGO’s, senior living operators, international and domestic investors who are interested to keep a track on the Government policies and the critical data points to refer.
The document (Elderly in India 2021) can be downloaded here or can be accessed below