{"id":9237,"date":"2023-04-20T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:35:42","slug":"state-of-world-population-report-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/state-of-world-population-report-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"State of World Population Report 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Highlights of the Report:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s <strong>total fertility rate<\/strong>, or births per woman, <strong>was estimated at 2<\/strong>, lower than the world average of 2.3.<\/li>\n<li>The average <strong>life expectancy<\/strong> for an Indian male was <strong>projected at 71 and 74 for females<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The report also brought up worrying statistics regarding gender rights in India.<\/li>\n<li>The adolescent birth rate per 1,000 girls aged 15\u201319 was 11, while 23 per cent of girls were married off before the age of 18.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the United Nations Population Fund\u2019s (UNFPA)\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an international development agency created in 1968 to support the execution of projects and programmes in the <strong>area of population and sexual and reproductive health.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person&#8217;s potential is fulfilled.<\/li>\n<li>In 1987, it was officially <strong>renamed as the United Nations Population Fund<\/strong> but the original abbreviation UNFPA (<strong>United Nations Fund for Population Activities<\/strong>) was retained.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> New York<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>not directly responsible for the collection of primary statistics<\/strong>; it plays an important role in the technical and financial support of statistical activities in countries, such as population censuses and thematic surveys etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Total fertility rate?<\/h3>\n<p>Total fertility rate (TFR) is a measure of the number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime, given the current birth rates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/governance\/india-s-population-to-surpass-china-s-this-year-un-report-calls-for-focus-on-reproductive-rights-88844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s population to surpass China\u2019s this year: UN report calls for focus on reproductive rights\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of World Population Report 2023 is  released by the United Nations Population Fund\u2019s (UNFPA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}