Assam’s Fertility Decline & the Paradox of a Shrinking People
By Mrinal Talukdar The numbers are out. And depending on who you are, they will either reassure you or quietly unsettle you. Assam’s Total Fertility Rate, as recorded in NFHS-6, now stands at 1.6. Below the national average. Below replacement level. And if you do the arithmetic carefully — accounting for community-wise differences — the … Read more