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What is fertility rate? In which age group is the fertility rate very high? What are its negative outcomes?

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High fertility rate:

Fertility rate refers to the number of children born out of every 1000 females belonging to the age group of 15-49 years.

  • High fertility is an important characteristic of Indian population.
  • In 1961, on an average a women belonging to this age group used to give birth to 6 children. This fell to 3 children in 2011. Still the number is quite high.

Reason for this characteristic are:

  • Early marriage leads to longer fertility period for women.
  • A very less number of women belonging to this fertile group are unmarried.


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