🧵 New Data Byte: North-eastern states have the highest shares of workers in government jobs, by Abhishek Waghmare
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@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 New Data Byte: North-eastern states have the highest shares of workers in government jobs, by Abhishek Waghmare
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 Higher education is often seen as a pathway to better job prospects and wages.
The share of graduates in India remains quite low, with fewer than 15% of Indians aged 25 and above, or only 140 million people, holding a graduate degree.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 As incomes rise and access to education and healthcare improves, women around the world have chosen to have fewer children. India, too, has seen a stunning decline in family sizes over the last 50 years.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 New Data Byte: The richest Indian households can eat fruit most often, by Nileena Suresh
India's richest households are nearly twice as likely to eat fruit every week as those who live in its poorest households.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 In 1950, a child born in India could expect to live only until the age of 41. By 2024, life expectancy at birth in India had risen to 72 years.
@dataforindia.bsky.socialNearly four decades ago, car ownership was rare across all economic classes. Fewer than 1% of households in even the richest quintile owned a car.
@dataforindia.bsky.socialSome states in particular have seen rapid progress. In Rajasthan and Odisha, for instance, only about one in ten births took place in a health facility in the early 1990s. By 2021, this had increased to more than nine in ten births.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 We are heading to IndiaFOSS 2026 this weekend!
Sept 26–27 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 Obesity is rising in India. In 2021, almost a quarter of adults aged 15–49 were overweight or obese. By 2024, this figure had reached nearly 30%.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 Six in ten workers in India are self-employed, making up the largest category of workers.
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@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 One in three young Indians were enrolled in higher education as of 2024. However, this is still below the enrolment rate in higher education of the world on average, as well as that of many developed countries.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 When a country’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) drops to 2.1 children per woman, demographers say it has reached “replacement fertility”.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 New Data Byte: Minimum temperatures in India are rising faster than maximum temperatures, by Juhi Chatterjee
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 Poverty lines help compare living standards across countries. Since prices of goods and services vary across countries, the World Bank uses purchasing power parities (PPPs) to express them in a common currency.
@dataforindia.bsky.social🧵 The first two years of life are critical for physical growth and brain development, making adequate nutrition essential.
