A recent report by the Lancet says Western countries will be forced to open borders to migration if they are to survive. But almost 700 years after this infamous pandemic became the last worldwide phenomenon to reduce global population levels by such a huge amount, a new report has warned of the “staggering social change” posed by plummeting fertility rates …
HYDERABAD: The world’s population has surpassed the 8-billion mark. As India aspires to become a five trillion USD economy, studies on the subject say that if women contribute in a ‘full-potential’ scenario – that is if women participate in equal numbers as men,India would add $2.9 trillion to its annual GDP in 2025. India’s Paradox – Case of Missing women …
The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey provides a valuable insight into changes underway in Indian society. When highlights were made public last year, the focus was on India’s declining total fertility rate that had, for the first time in the country’s history, dipped to below the replacement level, or a TFR of 2.1. If the trend were …
Towards the end of November 2021, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released two interesting documents. The report on NHA claimed that the share of the government’s health expenditure in the total gross domestic product increased from 1.15 per cent to 1.35 per cent in 2017-18. Likewise, it said, the share of total government expenditure in total health expenditure …
Sekher heads the Departmentof Population Policies and Programmes at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. We have almost reached replacement level fertility in most parts of India except in a few bigger States like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. However, the total wanted fertility rate in India was 1.8 children per woman in 2015-16. In fact, the Government of India …
