Demographic differences between Indian states are at the heart of the debate on representation and financial allocation.

An Indian politician has said Indian families should have three children each, after the country's fertility rate dropped to below two children per woman. Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya ...

Shrinking birth rates In the last 50 years, the global fertility landscape has undergone a massive transformation, shifting ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The head of India's powerful Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said that Indian families must have three children each, warning about the long-term ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for an "overwhelming number of countries," new analysis shows. Birth Gauge, an open-source database that aggregates global ...

“ [M]ore than 90% birth or death events are getting registered”, according to a March 2025 circular by the Registrar General of India. This means, about 2.8 million births—more than the population of ...