Your wildlife experience in India

[Rishi]

India's populationis expected to be expanding beyond China's by 2025, because in a democratic republic govt. can't force 1family-1child.

However, latest projections indicated that the awareness campaigns are bearing fruit & it is getting arrested & start falling by 2050 to stabilize at ~1.5 billion.

The population started soaring in the 1950s and saw the highest decadal growth of 24.8 per cent in the 1960s and 24.7 per cent in the 1970s. Since the 1980s, decadal growth has been falling and the 1990s saw a significant fall. The 2011 census confirmed that the fall is picking up pace. For the first time since the early 1900s, the first decade of the new millennium saw fewer people added to India’s population than in the previous decade.

Incidentally, the fertility rate in urban India is 1.8, close to the European Union’s 1.6. True, the urban population is less than a third of the total, but a third is still about 400 million people. 

11 large states with fertility rate at replacement level or below it

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Source: Sample Registration Survey (SRS) 2013 conducted by the Registrar General of India
 
The nine small states and seven even smaller federally administered territories, for which data wasn’t available, are also estimated to have below the replacement level fertility. Together, the 11 states and the smaller states and territories account for almost half the population (48.7%). Even of the remaining nine states, only the two most underdeveloped have a fertility rate of more than three children per woman.

PS: Also the population is very densely packed & most of the growth is concentrated in the more fertile & industrialized areas like..say, Nagpur (you can see it in map & how much darker certain districts are than their peers..)

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