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Discuss the salient features of the demographic situation in India. What are the prospects of reducing the birth rate and stabilising it in the near future?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Population Dynamics

When this question was set, India had crossed 750 million with a crude birth rate in the mid-thirties, and its second clause could only be answered speculatively. Four decades later it can be answered as a verdict: the birth rate did fall and fertility has stabilised — but not through the instruments the 1980s believed…

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  • Salient features of the demographic situation
  • The two routes, as they stood
  • What actually happened
  • Conclusion

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