2. The Geography of Fertility in India (1981-1991)

Fertility decline as social innovation The decline in fertility began more than twenty-five years ago in India and since then has had a considerable impetus. In the initial period, the effect of this decline on the birth rate was limited to offsetting a parallel decline in mortality, and the resultant growth rate remained stable. Since the late 1980s, the birth rate has been diminishing more rapidly than the rate of mortality and the theoretical natural growth of the Indian population, that i.