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India’s population and Fertility Rate
June 16 , 2025
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- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released the ‘2025 State of World Population’ (SOWP) Report.
- India is now the world’s most populous nation, with nearly 1.46 billion people.
- This number expected to grow to about 1.7 billion before it begins to fall, around 40 years from now
- Despite the slowing birth rate, India’s youth population remains significant, with 24% in the age bracket of 0-14, 17% in 10-19, and 26% in 10-24.
- The country’s 68% of the population is of working age (15-64),
- India’s total fertility rate has declined to 1.9 births per woman, falling below the replacement level of 2.1.
- This means that, on the average, Indian women are having fewer children than needed to maintain the population size from one generation to the next, without migration.
- In 1960, when India’s population was about 436 million, the average woman had nearly six children.
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