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Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS) show a marked improvement on various health and nutrition parameters over the past decade.
As chart 1 shows, the percentage of women in the age group of 20-24 years who are married by the age of 18 has declined from 47.4 per cent in 2005-06 to 26.8 per cent in 2015-16. A similar decline is also observed among those aged 15-19 years who are already mothers or pregnant. The fertility rate too has fallen to 2.2 in 2015-16, down from 3.4 in 1992-93.
But curiously, this decline coincides with a fall in the use of
