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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | What the data tells us: Are Muslims responsible for India's 'population explosion'? Not quite -Ali Mehdi

What the data tells us: Are Muslims responsible for India's 'population explosion'? Not quite -Ali Mehdi

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published Published on Aug 31, 2019   modified Modified on Aug 31, 2019
-The Times of India blog

The Prime Minister expressed concern about ‘population explosion’ in his Independence Day speech, and referred to those with small families as patriotic, ‘responsible citizens’. Last month, BJP MP Rakesh Sinha introduced the Population Regulation Bill, 2019, in the Rajya Sabha. He later claimed that his Bill was not aimed at any religion, caste or community. Regardless, the Shiv Sena targeted a section of the Muslims for their supposedly high birth rates (‘hum do, humare pachhis’ – we 2, our 25). Last year, BJP MP Giriraj Singh went to the extent of claiming that “one particular community is responsible for increasing the population of the country and that is curbing the nation’s development”, even as Shiv Sena called for “compulsory sterilisation” of Muslims.

None of this is new. Religious differences in birth rates have often been a matter of hot political debate in India since the early 1900s. Thankfully, India has had a long history of very rich and reliable demographic data which can be used to assess whether such concerns are well-founded.

India’s population has increased by more than 5 times in the last 110 years, from 238 million in 1901 to 1,211 million in 2011. Most of the increase (87%) happened in the post-Independence era (1951-2011). The highest population growth was 24.8% during 1961-71, after which the growth rate started declining, going down to 17.7% during 2001-11. A report by the National Institute for Heath and Family Welfare, ‘The Story of India’s Population’ (2014), confirms that “India has witnessed a steady decline in its population growth rate over the last four decades (1971–2011).”

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The Times of India, 27 August, 2019, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/what-the-data-tells-us-are-muslims-responsible-for-indias-population-explosion-not-quite/?fbclid=IwAR31P0J2


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