28 septembre 2021
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jacques Véron, « 1. Demographic Transition in India », Institut Français de Pondichéry, ID : 10.4000/books.ifp.9798
As a country long characterized by persistence of a high fertility rate despite very early adoption of a population policy (the first birth control programmes date from 1952), India since the 1970s has seen a marked reduction in the average number of children that a woman brings into the world. In 1990, the total fertility rate was 3.4 children per woman, which puts India only slightly above the world average. The decline in fertility is generalized, but its dimension varies in different stat...