India may have curbed its fertility rate, but it is still too high

India may have curbed its fertility rate, but it is still too high

India may have successfully curbed its high fertility rate, but it still has a long way to go in overcoming the population crisis. The number of children born per woman in the country still lies in the range of 2.1-4, according to a United Nations (UN) report published on June 17. This puts India in the intermediate-fertility group of countries in which around 40% of the world population lives, the report said.