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Indias Population Growth Plunges 11% In 10 Years
Silently,and without much sarkari fanfare,dramatic changes are taking place in the population indicators of some states that you wont see reflected in country-level data.Crude birth rate,that is,the number of live births per 1,000 population dipped from 26.4 to 22.8 for the whole country between 1998 and 2008.Thats a 14% decline.But in eight major states,the decline was much more.In Punjab,birth rate fell by a whopping 23%,followed by Kerala and Maharashtra (both 20%) and West Bengal (18%).
Countrywide,the crude death rate,that is,the number of deaths per 1,000 population,came down by 18% in a decade.Again,there were surprises in the toppers list.Both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan saw a 23% dip in death rates,closely followed by Bihar (22%) and UP (20%).
Subtracting deaths from births gives the natural growth rate of the population.For India,this key indicator declined by 11%,but in Kerala and Punjab,the rate of population growth slowed down by as much as 32%.In Maharashtra,it was down by 23% and in Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu and West Bengal,by about 18%.
These astonishing figures are computed from the annual Sample Registration System (SRS) survey done by the governments Census office for the years 1998 and 2008.The survey for 2008,which is the latest available,covered a sample of 7.1 million people spread across the country.
There has been a significant decline in the infant mortality rate (number of babies up to one year of age dying per 1,000 live births) in India from 72 in 1998 to 53 in 2008.Although more than 5% of babies dying in the first year of birth is still shocking,there is a decline of 26% over the past decade.
Silently,and without much sarkari fanfare,dramatic changes are taking place in the population indicators of some states that you wont see reflected in country-level data.Crude birth rate,that is,the number of live births per 1,000 population dipped from 26.4 to 22.8 for the whole country between 1998 and 2008.Thats a 14% decline.But in eight major states,the decline was much more.In Punjab,birth rate fell by a whopping 23%,followed by Kerala and Maharashtra (both 20%) and West Bengal (18%).
Countrywide,the crude death rate,that is,the number of deaths per 1,000 population,came down by 18% in a decade.Again,there were surprises in the toppers list.Both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan saw a 23% dip in death rates,closely followed by Bihar (22%) and UP (20%).
Subtracting deaths from births gives the natural growth rate of the population.For India,this key indicator declined by 11%,but in Kerala and Punjab,the rate of population growth slowed down by as much as 32%.In Maharashtra,it was down by 23% and in Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu and West Bengal,by about 18%.
These astonishing figures are computed from the annual Sample Registration System (SRS) survey done by the governments Census office for the years 1998 and 2008.The survey for 2008,which is the latest available,covered a sample of 7.1 million people spread across the country.
There has been a significant decline in the infant mortality rate (number of babies up to one year of age dying per 1,000 live births) in India from 72 in 1998 to 53 in 2008.Although more than 5% of babies dying in the first year of birth is still shocking,there is a decline of 26% over the past decade.