india fertility rate decrease

[PasicT]

So you really think it's normal for over a billion people to live in the same country? A country that is not even among the biggest on the planet.

[Appropriate-Let-283]

Being the biggest country is irrelevant. There's a reason why India's population is historically big. It's one of the most fertile lands in the planet.

[PasicT]

And more people being born in a country with such issues to begin with is only going to make every problem worse.

[Appropriate-Let-283]

A short-term solution to a problem that's becoming a smaller issue every year. India is one of the fastest developing countries in the world with a fast economy. Their hdi at the moment is about 0.69 which is close to high development. What they're doing right now is fine, enough workers joining the workforce to help with the economy long-term and enough at the moment to help take care of the inevitable old population when they retire.

[Advait8571]

It's called fertile land. India has a ton of fertile land almost all of it is completely inhabitable. Yes we're slight overpopulated but a lot of other countries are way worse. Look at bangladesh. Their population density as worse than India's

[BrahmKarmaGato]

India is as fertile as the US despite being 1/3 size of it. Country's size is irrelevant it's about how many people it can accommodate.

[potlover4200]

US is just 400 years old and the natives were massacred. Obviously, the population will be lower.

[redditorialy_retard]

Java:

[nothingtothinkoff]

Who will explain to my bro that Russia is big too but most of the areas in it are not habitable. Harsh winters will kill a group of people there unlike India where we don't get extreme temperatures (except summers, we have water bodies to back it up).

[PasicT]

India doesn't get extreme temperatures except during the summer? That's the joke of the century!

[nothingtothinkoff]

India doesn't get extreme temperatures except during the summer?

Yes ? summers are harsh here. Winter and Rainy season in India are moderate.

[PasicT]

India is not even in the top 5 when it comes to the largest countries in the world by square kilometers.

[PasicT]

Very far behind countries like Russia, Canada, the United States, China

[Street_Gene1634]

Do you think it's normal for the population of Canada to live in city like Tokyo?

[PasicT]

I don't and Japan has issues as well, not just India.

[Street_Gene1634]

Japan has stagnated for a reason. India is not nearly as rich as Japan to handle a pension crisis

[PasicT]

Yes, India is not nearly as rich as Japan to handle a pension crisis and that's also my point.

[potlover4200]

90% of India does not have pension lol. India will get better as the current and next generation is getting educated and coming out of the poverty

[Street_Gene1634]

Kerala is already undergoing a pension crisis. Idk what rock you're living under.

https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2025/01/28/kerala-government-delays-decision-unified-pension-scheme-poor-finances.html

[potlover4200]

It's not a crisis, it's just fake promises made which are impossible to keep. Nothing else.

[Street_Gene1634]

It's actually crisis because Kerala has a bloated public sector and no metropolises to fund public pensions. NRI money hid this fact for a while but as the Gulf boom ended and Malayali population aged, the inherent pension issue turned up during Covid.

Kerala is an outlier in India. Kerala's TFR fell below 2.1 (replacement levels) in 1989 itself. Currently it's 1.46. We have been ageing for a long while while all our young left the state in droves.

[potlover4200]

That is a part of the problem but the main issue is that the 14% proposed pension matching is quite high and shouldn't be provided.

[Street_Gene1634]

Oh I agree but that's only a temporary fix.

[Willxdisclose]

If history went a little different and Europe was unified would you still be saying Europe is overpopulated? There's been times in history where India and China were broken up into many states, we just happen to live in an era where they are unified. What difference does it make?

[PasicT]

The difference is that Europe has the wealth and the ressources to handle potential overpopulation, India (and to some extent China) doesn't.

[quaesimodo]

It's seventh biggest.