The analysis says achieving the SDGs set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100. Boosting universal access to reproductive health services and increasing female education on lowering birth rates would reduce fertility rates and “significantly slow” population growth in India, says a study. The study is the first to assess how successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) would affect population growth. Achieving the SDGs would significantly slow population growth, according to the study by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University.