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Hindus or Muslims, rich or poor: Who has the highest fertility rate?

-TimesNowNews.com

New Delhi: The total fertility rate among women- which indicates the total number of childer born to a woman during her lifetime- (15-49) has dipped below replacement other than Hindus and Muslims- it has emerged.

The fertility rate of Hindu households is 2.1 declining from 2.8 in the last survey in 2004-05, a level at which a population is said to be able to replace itself from generation to generation without migration, as reported by The Times of India.

The fertility rate of Muslim households also fell from 3.4 to 2.6. National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of 2015-16 revealed the data in the latest religion-wise data.

The community with the lowest fertility rate is Jains, 1.2, was the one with the highest level of education. This was followed by Sikhs (1.6), Buddhists or Neo Buddhists (1.7) and Christians (2). India's overall TFR was 2.2- the report said.

The low-income segment group has a high fertility rate of 3.2, compared to the high-income level segment at 1.5. Scheduled tribes, the least developed among social categories, had the highest fertility rate of 2.5, followed by 2.3 for scheduled castes and 2.2 for other backward classes. The upper castes had the lowest fertility rate of 1.9, cites the report.

Age factor too plays a role in fertility pattern in women. The younger the women, the lower the mean number of children born to them- the report suggests, indicating overall progress over the last two decades in bringing down the total fertility rate.

The TFR for Muslim women aged 40-49 was the highest at 4.2 and it was the lowest for Jain women of the same age at 2.2. Hindu women of this age group had the second highest TFR of 3.1.

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