: India’s fertility rate declines to 2 from 2.2 in five years, shows government survey #IndiaNEWS India’s total fertility rate has declined to 2 from 2.2 in five years, according to the latest findings

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India’s fertility rate declines to 2 from 2.2 in five years, shows government survey #IndiaNEWS
India’s total fertility rate has declined to 2 from 2.2 in five years, according to the latest findings of the National Family Health Survey, released on Wednesday. The total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime.On Wednesday, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released findings of Phase-II of the National Family Health Survey-5, which was conducted between 2019 and 2021. Fourteen states and Union Territories were covered in the second phase of the survey. The findings of the first phase were released in December 2020.In a statement on the findings, the Population Foundation of India noted that the fertility rate of 2 was lower than replacement level total fertility rate of 2.1. Replacement rate is a crucial factor in the study of population growth. A replacement rate of less than 2.1 ensures the replacement of a woman and her partner upon death with no overall increase or decrease in the population.“These findings bust the population explosion myth and show that India must steer away from coercive measures of population control,� the Population Foundation of India said.Another major positive from the findings of the survey was that India’s overall contraceptive prevalence rate rose to 67% between 2019-’21, as...Read more

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