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26 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

A few generations will have to suffer and that's perfectly OK. Let it fall. 

 

There's way too much stress on land, water and other resources in India. 

 

 

The ONLY issue is going to be elderly care. Other than that I see only great things. Want the feritility rate to fall to 0.45678

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4 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

The fall is across the board. Infact, I see more dramatic fall in UP than Kerala. 

Could be, this is 2-3 yrs old data.

Posted
7 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

The ONLY issue is going to be elderly care. Other than that I see only great things. Want the feritility rate to fall to 0.45678

Taiwan in 2026 will be the lowest in the world btw at 0.6

 

In 2025, it was 0.69. Taiwan and Thailand have the worst TFR in the world.

Posted
7 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

The ONLY issue is going to be elderly care. Other than that I see only great things. Want the feritility rate to fall to 0.45678

Yep. That's going to be the major issue going forward. 

 

But bringing in newer generations in an India with jobless economic growth , scarce resources and high pollution will be an even bigger nightmare 

 

I'm somewhat hopeful of the pollution scenario(with renewables and more efficient AUSC coal plants etc.)  but overall living standards have to improve as well 

 

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, kepler37b said:

The fall is across the board. Infact, I see more dramatic fall in UP than Kerala. 

This is a pattern, richer the state/country...lower is their fertility rate.
Most families have working husband n wife and having one kid is enough, as taking care of two require nanny and extra supervision even by the grand parents, which in today's case is extremely tough in Mega cities.
I remember all my aunts and uncles had between 3 to 5 kids, but now in my generation, due to govt. policies and work pressure, managing even 2 is a big headache. 

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2 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Yep. That's going to be the major issue going forward. 

 

But bringing in newer generations in an India with jobless economic growth , scarce resources and high pollution will be an even bigger nightmare 

 

I'm somewhat hopeful of the pollution scenario(with renewables and more efficient AUSC coal plants etc.)  but overall living standards have to improve as well 

 

Imagine a situation where married bride and groom are the single child of their respective families.
Who'll take care of whom will be a big question mark.

Posted
26 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

Imagine a situation where married bride and groom are the single child of their respective families.
Who'll take care of whom will be a big question mark.

I agree it's an issue. India needs to go through a very difficult period here.  Had we implemented proper population control programmes in the 50's and 60's we would have been better off now. 

 

18 % of the world's population with 4 % of the world's freshwater.

 

And even a lot of that is overextracted for agriculture to support this population.

 

Water scarcity is the biggest looming crisis facing India going forward 

 

 

Posted
2 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

This is a pattern, richer the state/country...lower is their fertility rate.
Most families have working husband n wife and having one kid is enough, as taking care of two require nanny and extra supervision even by the grand parents, which in today's case is extremely tough in Mega cities.
I remember all my aunts and uncles had between 3 to 5 kids, but now in my generation, due to govt. policies and work pressure, managing even 2 is a big headache. 

The living standards of our mega cities are very very bad. We do not realise it.

 

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Tfr will show a bounce in coming years. Is post covid period. Marraiges were delayed. Should be around 2.00 by 2028/2029.

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19 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

I agree it's an issue. India needs to go through a very difficult period here.  Had we implemented proper population control programmes in the 50's and 60's we would have been better off now. 

 

18 % of the world's population with 4 % of the world's freshwater.

 

And even a lot of that is overextracted for agriculture to support this population.

 

Water scarcity is the biggest looming crisis facing India going forward 

 

 

 

 

But our per capita calorie availability keeps risising..from 2000 in 1990 to 2560 in 2020. Is projected to rise to 3000 by 2050. Any reading above 3000 means country is producing good amounts of food for citizenry.

 

Our projections are 1.66 billion by 2050.

 

 

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Country can't become developed with this amount of population. People have doubts that 1.4 billion population of China is a false number after they adopted a one child policy in 80s.

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