Editor
For the second year running, Mumbai, India’s most populous city, has witnessed a slump in live births.
The uncertainty associated with a global pandemic and its impacts on families’ economic circumstances are deemed as the most likely reasons for a fall in the total number of live births in the city. The massive out-migration from space-starved Mumbai is deemed to be another reason for the drop.
In 2019, Mumbai recorded 1,48,898 births….
