Telling numbers: India population growing as fast as world’s, has fewer teen birth and maternal death rates | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling numbers: India population growing as fast as world’s, has fewer teen birth and maternal death rates | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: August 30, 2019 12:31:33 pm

Telling numbers: India population growing as fast as world’s, has fewer teen birth and maternal death rates

Early marriage continues to present a major cultural obstacle to female empowerment and better reproductive rights, the UNFPA report said.

India is the second most populous country in the world. (Representational Image)

India accounts for over one-sixth of the world’s population in 2019 (1.37 billion out of 7.71 billion) and has grown at an rate (1.2% per year between 2010 and 2019) that is just over the world growth rate (1.2%), according to State of the World Population 2019, the flagship report of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).