-The Hindu
In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched upon the need to control ‘population explosion’ in India. However, the growth rate of the country’s population has been falling since 1971. The Total Fertility Rate (the average number of children borne by a woman in her lifetime) has also been falling across most States.
India’s population growth rate peaked between 1961 and 1971 and has been falling since. The Census of 2011 counted 121 crore people in the country.
While Total Fertility Rate in rural areas remains higher than in urban areas, it has been declining at a faster rate than the latter, according to successive National Family Health Surveys.
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