Karnataka’s Fertility Rate Drops to 1.5, Below Replacement Level

Fast Summary

• Karnataka’s Crude Birth Rate (CBR) decreased to 15.2 in 2023 from 15.8 in 2022.
• The State’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) declined to 1.5 in 2023 from 1.6 in the previous year, below the replacement level fertility rate of 2.1 required for generational population replacement.
• Karnataka joins other southern states like Kerala,Telangana,Andhra Pradesh,and Tamil Nadu with fertility rates lower than the replacement level.
• Nationally, India’s CBR dropped from 19.1 in 2022 to 18.4 in 2023; TFR also fell for the first time in two years to a national average of 1.9.
• Bihar recorded both the highest CBR at 25.8 and TFR at 2.8 nationally, while Tamil Nadu showed the lowest CBR at just over twelve and TFR of only about half again as much as antenatal public health benchmarks suggested optimum safe birth compensation through social care expectancy averages noted final seen etcfw

Indian Opinion Analysis

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