AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi alleges electoral roll revisions will create a permanent class of excluded Indians. He states the right to vo...

India's National Family Health Survey-6 shows significant improvements in maternal and child health. Vaccinations and antenatal care have i...

India's birth rate has fallen below the replacement level. Most states now have fewer than 2.1 children per woman. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced financial incentives for families having more children. The government will pro...

The Sample Registration System report 2023 shows that India's Total Fertility Rate is now 1.9. Rural India's rate has reached the replaceme...

Union Budget: India's population has surpassed China's, with a significant working-age demographic. However, a declining Total Fertility Ra...

Recent government data shows that 31 out of 36 states and Union Territories in India have reached the replacement fertility rate of 2.1. Ho...

According to the report, India has made significant progress in population control measures in recent times with the Total Fertility Rates ...

According to the Sample Registration System (SRS) 2019, released by the Registrar General of India this month, the 13 states and two UTs ha...

The government is also planning to re-strategise its campaigns to fight anaemia, officials said. The data in NFHS 2019-21 showed that anaem...

SRS is the largest demographic survey in the country mandated to provide annual estimates of fertility as well as mortality indicators.

In Chhattisgarh, the Muslim TFR of 2.1 was lower than the 2.2 for Hindus, and in Odisha Muslims had the lowest TFR among the three sizeable...

TFR is the average number of children expected to be born per woman during her entire span of reproductive period and India has a TFR targe...

Govt said it was expanding basket of choice for contraceptives to meet unmet demand even as it asserted that the TFR in most states have co...

India is lagging behind its key human development index targets, including population control, infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mor...

Ramesh said India will be adding another 400 mn to current population in the next 36 years and by 2050 will be the world's most populous co...

While 23 states and UTs have already achieved the target , states like like UP and Bihar with large population base still have TFR of 3.3 a...