Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers India’s fertility transition. It reviews present fertility trends and differentials, the socio-economic and cultural explanations for the transition, and discusses future fertility trends and some of the implications. Before the mid-twentieth century, average levels of human fertility were high. Indeed, given high death rates, birth rates had to be appreciable simply to maintain the population (Davis 1951). Although for women marriage was both early and universal, and there was little or no practice of deliberate birth control, fertility levels were restricted in several ways.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-03-25
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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