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SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 50

SSC MTS - 25 July 2022 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q50

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As per Sample Registration System’s 2018 report, what percentage of India’s population comes under working age?

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. 66%

  • The SRS report, an annual publication from the office of the census commissioner and registrar general, estimates that in 2018, nearly two-thirds of the population, or 66%, was between 15 and 59.
  • Two states — Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — had over 70% of their populations in the working-age bracket, and Bihar was the lone state in which they were less than 60% of the total.
  • States widely considered less developed had a lower proportion of their population in the working-age groups.
  • The percentage of the working population in India is 59.5 percent of the total population.