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VOL. 10, ISSUE 4 (2024)
An emperical analysis of the declining birth rate in different states of India
Authors
Dhriti Borah
Abstract
This paper mainly aims to study the trend of birth rate in India and
the factors responsible for the rapid decline. In 1970, the birth rate was
above five and now in 2024, the birth rate has fallen to 2.0 and it is further
projected to fall to 1.29 by 2050. The greatest disadvantage will be the
increase in the proportion of aging population which will have a great pressure
on the economy. This study mainly takes into consideration two factors
including-use of contraceptives and percentage of obese or overweight women. In
order to study the trend, the time series data is collected from 1970 to 20224.
On the other hand, in order to study the factors responsible, the data is
collected from several states of India. After that, the Karl Pearson’s
Co-efficient of Correlation is used. The result of the correlation clearly
shows that both the two factors, use of contraceptives and percentage of obese
or overweight women have a high degree of correlation with the Total fertility
rate. Higher the use of contractive, lowers is Total Fertility Rate and versa.
Similarly, higher is the percentage of obese or overweight women, lower is the
fertility rate and vice versa.
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Pages:66-69
How to cite this article:
Dhriti Borah "An emperical analysis of the declining birth rate in different states of India". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, Vol 10, Issue 4, 2024, Pages 66-69
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