India, Aug. 15 -- India enters its 80th year of independence today. The journey so far has been tumultuous in many ways but also one of significant achievements. Today, as the world's largest democracy and its most populous country - India only overtook China on this count in 2023 - India's challenges are best described by talking about the country's demographic, its employment prospects and the anxieties around these two factors. Here is what data can tell us about it.

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