New Delhi: Even though India’s overall decline of fertility rate has been encouraging, there are wide inter-regional variations with five states still not having achieved replacement-level of fertility of 2.1 — the rate at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next — according to the (NFHS) National Family Health Survey-5.
These states are Bihar (2.98), Meghalaya (2.91), Uttar Pradesh (2.35), Jharkhand (2.26) and Manipur (2.17), according to the NFHS-5 conducted from 2019-21.
According to the report, India has made significant progress in population control measures in recent times with the Total Fertility Rates (TFR), an average number of children per women, further declining from 2.2 to 2 at the national level between NFHS-4 and 5.
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