India’s Baby Boom Is Over. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

2001 was a special year in India’s population history, a quiet but profound shift that year went almost entirely unnoticed

Explore the Data

Underlying data is available via Google Sheet.

Reference Links

• https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demography?time=earliest..2023&tableFilter=selection&hideControls=false&indicator=Births&Sex=Both+sexes&Age=Total&Projection+scenario=None&country=~IND
• https://population.un.org/wpp/
• UN, World Population Prospects (2024)