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However, Periyar's views were strikingly different from that of Gandhi. He saw birth control as a means for women to control their own lives. [39] In 1952, India became the first country in the developing world to create a state-sponsored family planning program, the National Family Planning Program. [40]
In 2009, 48.3% of married women were estimated to use a contraceptive method, i.e. more than half of all married women did not. [15] About three-fourths of these were using female sterilization, which is by far the most prevalent birth-control method in India. [15] Condoms, at a mere 3%, were the next most prevalent method. [15]
The total fertility rate of India in 2017 stood at 2.2. [2] Due to the large population, poverty and strain on resources, the Indian government initiated population control efforts to decrease birth rate with the current target being at 2.1 children per woman. [3]
The first report on maternal mortality in India (1997-2003), describing trends, causes and risk factors, was released in October 2006. [15] In 2005, a woman's lifetime risk of maternal death in India was estimated to be 1 in 70. Similarly, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR; number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) in India was 450. [16]
Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [54] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [55] lived in about 638,000 villages [56] and the remaining 27.8% [55] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [57]
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[2] 11.9% of all maternal deaths and 18% of all infant mortality in the world occurs in India, ranking it the highest in the world in 2021. [3] [4] 36.6 out of 1000 children are dead by the time they reach the age of 5. [5] 62% of children are immunized. [6] Communicable disease is the cause of death for 53% of all deaths in India. [7]