{"id":89186,"date":"2019-07-24T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2019-07-24T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:07:32","slug":"what-are-indias-challenges-as-its-fertility-rate-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-indias-challenges-as-its-fertility-rate-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"What are India\u2019s challenges as its fertility rate falls?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The\nrecent Sample Registration System data of 22 states has revealed that the total\nFertility Rate (TFR) for India has declined to 2.2 in 2017 after being stable\nat 2.3 between 2013 and 2016.<\/li><li>TFR\nindicates the average number of children expected to be born to a woman during\nher reproductive span of 15-49 years.<\/li><li>TFR\nof about 2.1 children per woman is called Replacement-level fertility. This\nrepresents the level at which a population can replace itself from one\ngeneration to other without growing or declining.<\/li><li>The\nTFR for rural areas, varies from 1.6 in Delhi and Tamil Nadu to 3.3 in Bihar.\nFor urban areas, the variation is from 1.1 in Himachal Pradesh to 2.4 in Uttar\nPradesh and Bihar.<\/li><li>The\n25-29 age is the most fertile, except in Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh\nand Maharashtra, where it peaked between 20 and 24. Only in Jammu and Kashmir,\nthe TFR is highest after 30.<\/li><li>The\nfactors that have contributed to declining TFR are: a) Higher education, b) increased\nmobility, c) late marriage, d) financial independence among women and e) overall\nprosperity.<\/li><li>India\nhas entered a 37 year period of demographic dividend since 2018. To reap the\nbenefits of demographic dividend, India should invest in the education and\nhealth of the workforce and provide employment opportunities to the youth.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Sample Registration System data of 22 states has revealed that the total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has declined to 2.2 in 2017 after being stable at 2.3 between 2013 and 2016. TFR indicates the average number of children expected to be born to a woman during her reproductive span of 15-49 years.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-indias-challenges-as-its-fertility-rate-falls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are India\u2019s challenges as its fertility rate falls?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704685770},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89186","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}