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The total fertility rate of India in 2017 stood at 2.2. [2] Due to the large population, poverty and strain on resources, the Indian government initiated population control efforts to decrease birth rate with the current target being at 2.1 children per woman. [3]
As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population . [ 2 ] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the ...
Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023. ... (2023) India: 23,219,489
[17] [18] In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%. [ 19 ] In 2023, the median age of an Indian was 29.5 years, [ 20 ] compared to 39.8 for China and 49.5 for Japan; and, by 2030; India's dependency ratio will be just over 0.4. [ 21 ]
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) ranking list is based on the data of the 2024 World Population Data Sheet [6] published online. The PRB [7] is a private, nonprofit organization which informs people around the world about population, health and the environment for research or academic purposes. It was founded in 1929.
Times of India reported that 'since 2001, child marriage rates in India have fallen by 46% between 2005 and 2009. [50] Jharkhand is the state with highest child marriage rates in India (14.1%), while Kerala is the only state where child marriage rates have increased in recent years.
A 2023 map of countries by fertility rate. Blue indicates negative fertility rates. Red indicates positive rates. The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of ...
Government of India (2011). Census of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2012. "Census of India 2001. Chapter 6: Sex Composition of the Population" (PDF). Census of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2021; John, Mary E (16 April 2011). "Census 2011: Governing Populations and the Girl Child" (PDF).