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 A matter of life and death [1]

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THE Indian fertility graph mirrors the falling rate. Urban women who have 1 child less, on an average, are spearheading the fertility downslide. Women in their 40s have an average 5 children each, but childbearing women now produce at an average only 3.4 children each.

While in the rest of the developing world, about 80 per cent of married women use contraception, only 41 per cent of Indian women do.But they donot have access to adequate birth controle methods. Sterilisation -- tubectomy -- is the most popular form of female birth control.

Publication Date: 
Monday, February 27, 1995
Down to Earth [2]
Volume No: 
3
Issue No: 
19950228
Tags:
Children [3], Family Planning [4], India [5], Statistics [6]
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