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Indian fertility has fallen below the rate required for population stability, in further evidence of the unexpectedly rapid decline in births internationallyThe global fall in fertility rates has arrived faster and spread further than anticipated. Two-thirds of people now live in countries that have slipped below the replacement rate – 2.1 births per woman – required for a stable population. Last month, India revealed that its fertility rate had . The world’s two most populous nations, which ...