Demographic Troubles
The Onge are one of the least fertile and most sterile people in the world. About 40% of the married couples are sterile. Onge women rarely become pregnant before the age of 28. Infant and child mortality is in the range of 40%. The net reproductive index for the Onge is 0.91. For comparison, the net reproductive index among the Great Andamanese is 1.40.
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