Context: According to findings of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), for the first time on record, the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1, as assessed.
Issues associated with enforcing legal population control measures
Conclusion: Any post-Malthusian reading of economics holds population as an asset and not liability but as creators of value and not mouths to feed and with the present trend our economy could see us clubbed in the same bracket as countries that have fallen short of people.
==========================================================================================