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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by onionopinion on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:49PM (#33515692)
Atleast on story I have heard from my grand parents is:

In 1960s villages didn't have access to medicine or doctors. So people used to produce 5-7 children so atleast 1-2 went into adulthood.

But as medicine became more easily accessible all 5-7 children ended up in adulthood leading to population increase.

Nowadays I see max 2 children in villages.

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by newyankee on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:01AM (#33516018)
The average fertility rate in India is 2.2 now I think. It is below 2 in Southern states and still relatively high in BIMARU states which are the biggest problems.
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