Fertility is falling faster than expected in India, and the country is on track to reach replacement levels of fertility as soon as 2020, new official data shows. The 2013 data for the Sample Registration Survey (SRS), conducted by the Registrar General of India, the country?? official source of birth and death data, was released on Monday. The SRS shows that the Total Fertility Rate ??the average number of children that will be born to a woman during her lifetime ??in eight States has fallen below two children per woman, new official data shows. Just nine States ??all of them in the north and east, except for Gujarat ??haven?? yet reached replacements levels of 2.1, below which populations begin to decline. West Bengal now has India?? lowest fertility, with the southern States, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Among backward States, Odisha too has reduced its fertility to 2.1.

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