India's fertility decline signaled an accelerating shift toward an older population, threatening to reduce the proportion of ...

India's birth and death rates have halved since 1971, while infant mortality has dropped to a record low, SRS 2023 data shows. Experts stress closing rural-urban and state health gaps.

The TFR decline marks a milestone where a decades-long fertility decline has now brought rural India in line with global demographic trends.

Birth rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year.

Goa Governor P Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Wednesday expressed concern over the declining birth rate in the country, and said while India is currently seen as a young nation, it may lose this demographic ...

At that point, the world’s population will start to shrink, something it has not done since the 14th century, when the Black Death wiped out perhaps a fifth of humanity. Alarming as this might sound, ...

Despite India being the world's most populous nation with 1.46 billion people, its total fertility rate has fallen to below two children per woman, according to the UN Population Fund's 2025 report.

The sex ratio in Delhi declined to 920 females per thousand males in 2024 as compared to 922 in the previous year, according to an official report.

Between the 1970s and the 2010s global rates of twinning rose sharply due to the rise of fertility treatments (some ...

Interventions to be studied include administration of antenatal corticosteroids, early enteral feeding, immediate kangaroo ...