> On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. the writer (who appears to be anonymous

> On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. the writer (who appears to be anonymous?) shamelessly omits citing or linking to any source for this, and i can't find it. there's a WaPo article [1] claiming a similar thing, where their assertion is backed up by a broken link. when i search "India fertility rate" the most relevant thing i can find suggests this to be 2.18 as of this year [2]. this source's numbers match the St Louis Fed's numbers [3] up to the point that the fed lacks data (2019). help me out here. the claim that fertility rates are falling faster than predicted -- and that replacement rate has already been reached -- is central to this article. so on the surface, this article seems entirely untrustworthy. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/25/india-birth-rate-replacement-population/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/25/india-birth-... [2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/fertility-ra... [3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTININD https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTININD