🔆 UNFPA 2025 Report: It’s Not About Fewer Babies 📍 The Real Crisis? ✅ Not declining fertility — but lack of reproductive choice for women. 📍 Global Shift ✅ Fertility: 5 (1960) ➝ 2.2 (2024) ✅ Over 50% live in countries below 2.1 rate ✅ By 2054, all nations may dip below 2.0 📍 India’s Reality ✅ Fertility down: 2.9 ➝ 2.0 (2005–2020) ✅ Child population peaked in 2004, teens in 2009 ✅ Growth slowing, but positive due to longer life spans 📍 The Dual Paradox ✅ 36% had unintended pregnancies ✅ 30% couldn’t conceive when they wanted ✅ Some have too few, others too many ✅ 9.4% unmet family planning needs (NFHS-5) 📍 What’s Blocking Reproductive Freedom? ✅ Money, housing, childcare, jobs ✅ Unequal gender roles & infertility stigma ✅ Workplace fear of losing jobs for being pregnant 📍 New Parenthood Norms ✅ More women now have kids in late 20s–30s ✅ Spacing issues still poorly addressed 📍 Policy Direction ✅ Drop the population panic ✅ Invest in choices, equity & healthcare — not control #society