The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, or total fertilityrate (TFR), has dropped below replacement for all religious communities barring Hindus and Muslims.
The fertility rate of Hindu households fell from 2.6 in the last survey in 2005-06 to 2.1, the level at which a population is said to be able to replace itself from generation to generation without migration.
The fertility rate of Muslim households fell from 3.4 to 2.6. This was revealed in the latest religion-wise data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of 2015-16.
The community with the lowest fertility rate, 1.2, was the one with the highest level of education, the Jains. This was followed by Sikhs (1.6), Buddhists or Neo Buddhists (1.7) and Christians (2). India's overall TFR was 2.2......Read more
Source web page:Times of India
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