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Source : https://youtu.be/jkIosz8cOeg?t=2236 At ~37:16 in this talk , Dr. Mehta can be heard saying the following: "...and the thing about this demographic thinking is completely self-fulfilling , this is not about an empirical argument , right, you can see how self-fulfilling its logic is, right?" [Emphasis mine] Since he does not specify either what his definition of self-fulfilling is or in what sense he is using it, let us consider a couple of dictionary meanings: "(of an opinion or prediction) bound to be proved correct or to come true as a result of behaviour caused by its being expressed"  https://cutt.ly/Itx5HqI   "becoming real or true by virtue of having been predicted or expected"  https://cutt.ly/xtx5Ktf     If the empiricism of 'demographic thinking' has been missed by him, for his convenience, let us first look at the data:  Empirical data : Source: 26 August 2015 LiveMint article titled: Census 2011 shows