Indian Youth

As defined by the national youth policy (2014), persons between 15 to 29 can be referred as youth. This age-group constitutes 27.5% of India's population. 2011 Census data revealed that 563 million young people between the age of 10 to 35 stay in India. This number has increased since then.

There are many problems faced by India youth. In this world of survival of the fittest, the youth face the problem of peer pressure. Drugs and alcohol abuse is something the youth have to deal with and this is again due to peer pressure. Cost of education and fear of unemployment concern the Indian youth a lot.

Indian youth want an environment in which the government act as a facilitator, not a regulator. The youth of India want the government to play a pro-active role and address their concerns which is mainly of employment. Apart from this they want a corruption free nation in which the merit prevails. They want the Rule of Law to govern them rather than Rule of Man.

The total population of India is approximately 808 million. Nearly 40 per cent of the Indian population is aged 13 to 35 years. This is the segment that is defined as youth in the National Youth Policy. India has the largest youth population in the world.

There is no universally agreed international definition of youth. However, for statistical purpose, the United Nations (UN) defines 'youth' as persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years. UN has come up with this definition without prejudice to any other definitions made by member states.