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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.

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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).

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