“Muslim population in India is 20% and out of 65000 children born every day, 40000 are Muslims”
Social media posts
Claim dated 16 May 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The Civil Registration System under the Office of Registrar General, India records the total number of birth registrations in a year. However, these reports do not provide religion-wise registration data. Also, as per the 2011 Census, the share of Muslim population in India is 14.2%
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 May 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2021, 11 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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