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Demographic trends are the result of interaction of fertility, mortality and migration in a society. Fertility is a crucial aspect in the study of population for various reasons. The most important reason being that fertility is directly responsible for the biological replacement and maintenance of human society. Fertility is a positive force through which the population expands while mortality is a counteractive force in the sense it causes attrition in the size of population. Migration both the inward and outward movements are considered. The decadal census of 2011 is expected to give the all India population a count of 120 crores as against 102 crores of 2001 census. The world's biggest ever population counting process in the history of mankind has just begun in the country. Andhra Pradesh has a starting figure of 985 females per 1000 males in the year 1901 while at the national level, the sex ratio was 972. This difference was maintained all through the century.