‘POPULATION VERSUS PLANET’ CONFERENCE

Feb. 21, 2021

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare participated in WION and Zee Media’s ‘Population versus Planet’ Conference which is a part of its year-long campaign called 'Mission Sustainability: Population Vs Planet'.

Key highlights:

World population has witnessed an increase from 1 billion in the year 1800 to 7.8 billion today.
Even though India's population has increased from 36 crore in 1951 to 121.02 crore in 2011, the country has witnessed significant decline in both fertility and mortality;
- the crude birth rate which was recorded at 40.8 per 1000 in 1951 has declined to 20.0 in 2018;
- Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has declined from 6.0 in 1951 to 2.2 in 2015-16;
- death rate in India has declined from 7 in 2012 to 6.2 in 2018.
Population projection for India and States 2011-2036, released in July 2020, indicates that the Total Fertility Rate is expected to decline from 2.37 during 2011-2015 to 1.73 during 2031-35.
The youth population in the age group of 15-24 years is projected to decline from 233 million in 2011 to 227 million in 2036.
However, the proportion of the working age population is expected to increase from 61% in 2011 to 65% in 2036. India is adding 12 million people to the working age population each year.