No government in India has successfully formulated policies to manage the country’s human population growth, which stands at 1.6% a year, down from a high of about 2.3% in the 1970s.
In that decade there were aggressive sterilisation campaigns, mainly targeting men, and these have stigmatised family planning ever since.
India is forecast to become the world’s most populous country in 2030, up from 1.25 billion today to nearly 1.5 billion.
Teaching poorly educated women in remote communities how to use pills or contraceptives is more expensive than the mass sterilisation campaigns, and despite successive years of economic growth, governments have systematically chosen the cheaper option.
India, therefore, has one of the world’s highest rates of female sterilisations, with about 37% of women having the operations, compared with 29% in China, according to the UN. About 4.6 million Indian women were sterilised in 2011 and 2012, according to the government.
No government in India has successfully formulated policies to manage the country’s human population growth, which stands at 1.6% a year, down from a high of about 2.3% in the 1970s.In that decade there were aggressive sterilisation campaigns, mainly targeting men, and these have stigmatised family planning ever since.India is forecast to become the world’s most populous country in 2030, up from 1.25 billion today to nearly 1.5 billion.Teaching poorly educated women in remote communities how to use pills or contraceptives is more expensive than the mass sterilisation campaigns, and despite successive years of economic growth, governments have systematically chosen the cheaper option.India, therefore, has one of the world’s highest rates of female sterilisations, with about 37% of women having the operations, compared with 29% in China, according to the UN. About 4.6 million Indian women were sterilised in 2011 and 2012, according to the government.
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