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Kerala: A ghost town in the world's most populated country

As India overtakes China as the world's most populous nation, there is a crisis of population in parts of the country where fertility has fallen below replacement levels and migration has left behind ghost towns inhabited by the elderly. Kumbanad, a town in Kerala state, is grappling with the consequences of an aging society. A 150-year-old government upper primary school in Kumbanad has 50 students on its rolls, down from about 700 until the late 1980s.