{
  "id": "hea-tfr-064",
  "question": "How many children does an Indian woman have on average?",
  "topic": "Health",
  "unit": "children per woman",
  "decimals": 1,
  "measures": "Total fertility rate: the average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime at the age-specific birth rates of that year, from the Sample Registration System of the Registrar General of India. A rate of about 2.1 keeps a population stable in the long run (replacement level).",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024",
    "url": "https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/47152",
    "table": "SRS Statistical Report 2024, Table 15 (annual estimates of TFR, India, total, 2019-24); 2014-18 from SRS Statistical Report 2019, Table 15 (2014-19)",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-20",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-18",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-07-19",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India (Ministry of Home Affairs)",
    "survey": "Sample Registration System (SRS), Statistical Report 2024",
    "frequency": "Annual SRS Statistical Report",
    "measures": "Average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime at the age-specific fertility rates of the year",
    "notes": [
      "The SRS is a dual record system: a resident part-time enumerator records births and deaths continuously, a full-time supervisor runs an independent half-yearly retrospective survey, and the two records are matched.",
      "The current sample of 8,853 sample units (villages and urban blocks) was drawn from the Census 2011 frame in 2014; the frame is replaced about every ten years.",
      "A TFR of about 2.1 is the replacement level, at which a population stays stable in the long run."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "label": "National Health Policy 2017 target",
      "value": 2.1,
      "by": "2025",
      "source": {
        "name": "Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Health Policy 2017, para 2.4.1 (copy hosted by NHSRC)",
        "url": "https://www.nhsrcindia.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/National%20Health%20Policy%202017%20%28English%29%20.pdf"
      }
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2014",
      "start": "2014",
      "end": "2014",
      "value": 2.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2015",
      "start": "2015",
      "end": "2015",
      "value": 2.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2016",
      "start": "2016",
      "end": "2016",
      "value": 2.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2017",
      "start": "2017",
      "end": "2017",
      "value": 2.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2018",
      "start": "2018",
      "end": "2018",
      "value": 2.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2019",
      "start": "2019",
      "end": "2019",
      "value": 2.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
      "start": "2020",
      "end": "2020",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "start": "2021",
      "end": "2021",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "start": "2022",
      "end": "2022",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "start": "2023",
      "end": "2023",
      "value": 1.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "start": "2024",
      "end": "2024",
      "value": 1.9
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/hea-tfr-064/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/hea-tfr-064/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/hea-tfr-064/versions.csv"
}