Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A 2023 map of countries by fertility rate. Blue indicates negative fertility rates. Red indicates positive rates. The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of ...
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 government intends to reduce poverty by 10% during the 12th Five-Year Plan. Ahluwalia said, "We aim to reduce poverty estimates by 9% annually on a sustainable basis during the Plan period". Earlier, addressing a conference of State Planning Boards and Planning departments, he said the rate of decline in poverty doubled during the Eleventh ...
India's fertility rate has fallen substantially - from 5.7 births per woman in 1950 to the current rate of two. ... Fewer children also mean a rising old-age dependency ratio, leaving fewer ...
Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government. From 1965 to 2009, contraceptive usage has more than tripled (from 13% of married women in 1970 to 48% in 2009) and the fertility rate has more than halved (from 5.7 in 1966 to 2.4 in 2012), but the national fertility rate in absolute numbers remains high ...
Population pyramid of India showing the beginning of population momentum even though their birth rates have been declining since 1955. To calculate population momentum for population A, a theoretical population is constructed in which the birth rate for population A immediately becomes replacement level. Under such conditions, the population ...
MLB News: Chicago Cubs finally end Sammy Sosa exile after legend's apology letter Sasaki meeting with Yankees "soon" Per Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, Sasaki has a meeting scheduled with ...
A map of when European fertility rates fell below replacement levels Map of countries by crude birth rate. Map of countries by total fertility rate. Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate (TFR) that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.