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"Hindus should produce more babies to counter Muslim population" - RSS

Some facts, damn facts, and 'stats' on this Islamophobic myth.

1st of all, the growth rate of Muslim population in the past cannot be the basis to conclude the rate in future.

Statistically, one cannot divide the decadal growth rate by ten to arrive at the annual growth rate, simply b'coz population grows exponentially.

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It sort of increases like compound-interest, gathering steam over time, but it's slightly more complicated than that, for fertility rates are involved too.

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The lower growth rate indicates perhaps the declining fertility rate among Muslims – if anything, this shows their population is growing at a slower rate than ever before.

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And, in absolute numbers, Muslim population has increased by a paltry 0.8 per cent between 2001 and 2011 in those intervening years, relative to India's population growth.

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While the growth rate of the Muslim population has slowed from around 29% between 1991 and 2001, it is still higher than the national average of 18% for the decade.

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Another fear-factor pulled out of the Sangh Parivar is that bigamy leads to more children. This too, is untrue, for whatever the rate of marriage might be for males of any community, the number of women (who alone bear children) will remain a constant.

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What the numbers indicate though is that the growth rate of India's population has probably slowed down. Now, this is a result of better education and higher health standards but it is not something the BJP can take credit for.

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The sad part is that in a previous National Family Health Survey, it was found that whereas the total fertility rate is 2.1 in urban areas, the total wanted fertility rate was 1.6, and similarly in rural areas: the TFR was 3.0 but the wanted rate was far lower, at 2.1

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Herein is the tragedy and irony of inciting people to produce babies for communal reasons: Indians, rural and urban already want far fewer children than they have. (NFHS, 2005-6).

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In any case, for anyone concerned with India's population growth rate, the largest majority should be the target of attention, not the minority.

Here is what some number-crunching on the Hindu (as well as Muslim) populations in India (and the world) shows:

Hindu population in 2050 will be 2.7 billion if the rate of growth continues as it is. (With the growth rate increasing at an exponential rate, adding 0.125 per cent a year to the existing growth rate of Indian population, of 2.1 per cent).

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The Sachar report has predicted that Muslims will be under 20% of India's population by the end of the 21st Century, and 16 per cent in 2030. Worldwide, according to Pew Research in 2011, Muslim population will increase by 2030 to 2.2 billion, from 1.6 billion in 2010.

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Projected world population in 2050 is 9 billion (Stephen Emmott).

This means that Hindus will be 30 per cent of world population – three in every ten persons in the WORLD will be a Hindu aka 'casteist' lol

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