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Article: Christophe Z. Guilmoto and S. Irudaya Rajah (eds), Fertility Transition in South India.(population statistics )
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- Journal of Population Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Christophe Z. Guilmoto and S. Irudaya Rajah (eds), Fertility Transition in South India. New Delhi: Sage, 2005. 452 pp.
The South Indian fertility transition is one of the most important demographic events of our time. In 2001 South India's population numbered 225 million, more than any country in the world outside India itself other than China and USA. What makes its transition so significant is that this poor population (three-quarters of the per capita purchasing power of China), characterized by democratically elected governments and non-coercive family planning programs, had achieved below-replacement fertility by 2001 (according to Rajan by the mid-1990s). ...