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India's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) Trend
The decline of the total fertility rate in India from the 1990s to present.
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Modi allies push for bigger families despite India's 1.4b population
Highlights: India's fertility rate at 2, below replacement level Modi alliance partner rolls out incentives for larger families in southern state Hindu group RSS prioritises push for bigger families India may be the world's most populous country, with 1.42 billion people and challenges like high youth unemployment, but powerful allies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are championing larger families to counter a declining fertility rate. Even though the United Nations projects India's population will keep rising for about four decades, peaking at around 1.7 billion, some policymakers and Hindu groups say the shift away from smaller families should begin now, including through government financial support. The country's total fertility rate (TFR), the average number of children per woman, declined to 2 in the 2019/21 government assessment period, down from 3.4 in 1992/93, due to increasing use of contraceptives and rising education among females. A rate of 2.1 is required for the population to replace itself, the government estimates. The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, ruled by a coalition of a regional party and Modi's party, said over the weekend it would offer a one-time cash incentive of 30,000 rupees ($311.57) for a third child and 40,000 rupees for a fourth, revising an earlier proposal for 25,000 rupees for a second child and no direct support for a first-born. It did not say when the plan will be implemented. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said falling birth rates in many countries were leading to ageing populations and economic strain. "In the past, we worked extensively on family planning," he said. "Now, given the changed circumstances, we are calling for children to be seen as wealth." The small northeastern state of Sikkim has also urged families to have more children, offering incentives such as year-long maternity leave, month-long paternity leave and financial support for in-vitro fertilisation. The United Nations says that in the mid-1980s, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey all deemed their birth rates too high and tried to bring them down, only to change course by 2015 to promote policies to boost births. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a powerful Hindu group from which Modi's party emerged, has also called for bigger families, describing it as a priority. "We say that India is a country of youngsters … but slowly, the TFR is coming down," RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale told reporters last week. "Demogra...
Modi allies push for bigger families despite India's 1.4-billion ...
NEW DELHI, May 18 (Reuters) - India may be the world’s most populous country, with 1.42 billion people and challenges like high youth unemployment, but powerful allies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are championing larger families to counter a declining fertility rate.Even though the United Nations projects India’s population will keep rising for about four decades, peaking at around 1.7 billion, some policymakers and Hindu groups say the shift away from smaller families should begin now, including through government financial support.The country’s total fertility rate (TFR), the average number of children per woman, declined to 2 in the 2019/21 government assessment period, down from 3.4 in 1992/93, due to increasing use of contraceptives and rising education among females. A rate of 2.1 is required for the population to replace itself, the government estimates.The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, ruled by a coalition of a regional party and Modi’s party, said over the weekend it would offer a one-time cash incentive of 30,000 rupees ($311.57) for a third child and 40,000 rupees for a fourth, revising an earlier proposal for 25,000 rupees for a second child and no direct support for a first-born. It did not say when the plan will be implemented.Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said falling birth rates in many countries were leading to ageing populations and economic strain."In the past, we worked extensively on family planning,” he said. “Now, given the changed circumstances, we are calling for children to be seen as wealth.”The small northeastern state of Sikkim has also urged families to have more children, offering incentives such as year-long maternity leave, month-long paternity leave and financial support for in-vitro fertilisation.The United Nations says that in the mid-1980s, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey all deemed their birth rates too high and tried to bring them down, only to change course by 2015 to promote policies to boost births.The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a powerful Hindu group from which Modi’s party emerged, has also called for bigger families, describing it as a priority."We say that India is a country of youngsters … but slowly, the TFR is coming down,” RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale told reporters last week. "Demographic imbalances will create tensions."India’s overall unemployment rate for those aged 15 and above was 3.1% in 2025, government data shows, but among those aged...
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