The Dividend QuestionIN · 15–29
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Political Awareness & Civic Engagement

Asked to name India's biggest problem, young Indians say jobs — across every level of education. They are also more pluralist than their parents.

A short narrated argument with figures in the flow.

Ask young Indians what the country's biggest problem is and the answer is not culture, religion or foreign policy. It is work. of 15–34-year-olds named unemployment, against 16% for poverty and 13% for inflation.

It also cuts across class in a way few issues do: 40% of graduates and 27% of non-literate respondents gave the same answer. A shared diagnosis across the education gradient is unusual, and it is the clearest link between Module 2 and how young people read their own politics.

Fig. 1 — Support for religious pluralism, by age group
81%of Indians aged 15–34 support religious pluralism
73%of older Indians do

The published article's headline figure is 79% overall; the comes from the survey owner's own presentation of the data, not a downloadable crosstab. We flag that rather than hide it.

Young Indians are, on this measure, more pluralist than their parents and more worried about jobs than anything else. Any account of youth politics that starts elsewhere is starting somewhere the data does not.

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The Dividend Question · Module 05
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Top national concern among 15–34s: unemployment
Indian Youth in the Post-Pandemic World — Lokniti-CSDS / Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
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