{"id":348125,"date":"2025-10-15T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=348125"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:28:00","slug":"twinning-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/twinning-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Twinning Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>New analyses on twinning rates and twin mortality, including projections for India and a call to establish a twin registry, have refreshed policy attention.<\/p>\n<h2>About Twinning Rate<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_348131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348131\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-348131\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=300%2C228&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=1024%2C777&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=768%2C583&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?w=1151&amp;ssl=1 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The twinning rate is the <strong>number of twin births per 1,000 deliveries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indicator of:<\/strong> It indicates <strong>how common twin pregnancies are<\/strong> and helps public health systems plan for <strong>higher-risk care<\/strong> and understand <strong>fertility patterns.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Study of Twinning Rates<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent studies analyzed 3 million+ births across 39 low-income countries, projecting <strong>future twinning with UN population data<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A separate <strong>India study<\/strong> used all <strong>five NFHS rounds (1993\u20132021)<\/strong> to track twin births and deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Findings of Studies<\/h2>\n<p><strong>India <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rising twinning:<\/strong> The proportion of twin births increased from 0.9% in 1993 to 1.5% in 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mortality burden:<\/strong> Twins formed 7.7% of all under-five deaths; mortality declined over time but remained high at 179.8 per 1,000 live births in 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Excess risk vs singletons:<\/strong> Death risk was 7.5 times higher in the early neonatal phase and 10 times higher in the late neonatal phase.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wealth gradient:<\/strong> Twin survival varied sharply by household wealth, identifying twins as a vulnerable group needing targeted interventions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birth-order nuance:<\/strong> Twins are more often born in later pregnancies, yet twins born in the first or second pregnancy face higher death risk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India projections:<\/strong> Twin births are projected to <strong>decline<\/strong> <strong>by about 10.5% by 2100<\/strong>, but India may still hold the <strong>largest share (23.4%)<\/strong> among studied countries; projections may underestimate future twinning because growing use of medically assisted reproduction was not included.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Global<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The absolute number of twin births will <strong>rise<\/strong> in many countries due to population growth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Asia, including India and Bangladesh<\/strong>, is projected to see <strong>declines<\/strong> in the number of twin births because fertility is below replacement and fewer women will give birth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Train frontline health workers <\/strong>to monitor and care for twins to improve local birth outcomes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Establish a twin registry<\/strong> to track health and development, support policy, and advance research on survival and biological aspects of twinning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: New analyses on twinning rates and twin mortality, including projections for India and a call to establish a twin registry, have refreshed policy attention. About Twinning Rate The twinning rate is the number of twin births per 1,000 deliveries. Indicator of: It indicates how common twin pregnancies are and helps public health systems plan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/twinning-rate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twinning Rate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-348125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}