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Childbirth practices in India are shaped by the prevalence of religious customs [1] and joint-family living, India's young average population, the lower national average age at marriage, and disparities in social status and literacy between men and women. Inadequate maternal health care services in India are a result of poor organization, the ...
This is a list of the states and union territories of India ranked in order of number of children born for each woman. Recent surveys show that in majority of Indian states, fertility rate has fallen well below the replacement level of 2.1 and the country is fast approaching the replacement level itself. [ 1 ]
Map of countries by fertility rate. India's fertility rate has greatly decreased in recent years and is now distinctly below the global rate. 1966 family planning stamp from India. 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 ...
Maternal mortality in India is the maternal death of a woman in India during pregnancy or after pregnancy, including post-abortion or post-birth periods. [1] Different countries and cultures have different rates and causes for maternal death. [ 2 ]
Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels, assuming that mortality rates remain constant and net migration is zero. [8] If replacement level fertility is sustained over a sufficiently long period, each generation will exactly replace itself. [ 8 ]
Country Number of births (2023) India 23,219,489 China 8,899,881 Nigeria 7,509,758 Pakistan 6,882,058 Indonesia 4,482,359 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,369,683
The following list sorts countries and dependent territories by mean age at childbearing.The mean age at childbearing indicates the age of a woman at their childbearing events, if women were subject throughout their lives to the age-specific fertility rates observed in that given year. [1]
This is a list of Indian states by life expectancy at birth. The figures come from the Human Development Index Report, published in 2011, by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India [ 5 ] and Sample Registration Survey (SRS) based life table 2010–14.