{"id":54599,"date":"2023-04-25T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/25\/life-at-25-in-india-and-china-money-worries-hard-work-and-no-plans-for-family"},"modified":"2023-04-25T08:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:01:21","slug":"life-at-25-in-india-and-china-money-worries-hard-work-and-no-plans-for-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54599","title":{"rendered":"Life at 25 in India and China: money worries, hard work and no plans for family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No time to find a partner and struggles to make a living are a fact of life for two young men in the world\u2019s two most populous countries<\/p>\n<p>India has become the world\u2019s most populous country, according to the United Nations\u2019 latest projections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/india-overtakes-china-to-become-worlds-most-populous-country\">knocking China off the top spot for the first time<\/a> since the UN began keeping records.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries are facing significant demographic challenges, be it dealing with the legacy of a disastrous one-child policy and ageing population or working out how to take advantage of a booming youth cohort while managing huge disparities in the growth rates of different states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/25\/life-at-25-in-india-and-china-money-worries-hard-work-and-no-plans-for-family\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No time to find a partner and struggles to make a living are a fact of life for two young men in the world\u2019s two most populous countriesIndia has become the world\u2019s most populous country, according to the United Nations\u2019 latest projections, knocking Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,62,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-india","category-population"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54600,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54599\/revisions\/54600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}