I don't necessarily agree with the idea that it's caused by increased quality of education or QoL, though. It makes much more sense to me that it's mostly - if not purely - driven by the population being subjected to industrial work, making time and energy that would usually go to child rearing diminished.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Oh man, I was worried India was going to run out of people any minute now

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"India's fertility rate has fallen substantially - from 5.7 births per woman in 1950 to the current rate of two.

Fertility rates have fallen below the replacement level of two births per woman in 17 of the 29 states and territories." - BBC

The replacement rate is 2.1 births per woman, just for accuracy. So the country's rate of 2 per woman on average is below replacement level.

[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Good. We could stand to hold off on the population increase for a bit while we fix all the fucked-up shit

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

India is the only place where the more Catholics there are, the lower the birth rate (except for maybe the Vatican)

[–] Ironfist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

what is your source?