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Status on total fertility rate - Lancet report

April 15 , 2024 225 days 370 0
  • By 2050, one in five Indians will be a senior citizen while there will be fewer younger people to take care of them.
  • By 2050 the share of senior citizens in India will be more than 20 per cent, that is one five people
  • India’s total fertility rate (TFR) — the average number of children born per woman — is dipping irreversibly to 1.29, far lower than the replacement rate of 2.1.
  • The TFR has more than halved in the last 70 years – from around five children for each woman in 1950 to 2.2 children in 2021.
  • In India, the TFR was 6.18 in 1950 which reduced to 4.60 in 1980 and further declined to 1.91 in 2021.
  • By 2050, 155 of 204 countries (76 per cent of the world) will be below the replacement level of fertility.

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