The obligation to marry and have children is unambiguous in the tradition — there is no celibate ideal to compete with it, priests marry, and a passage in the Vendidad ranks the man with a wife above the unmarried one. The demographic outcome is the community's central crisis, and the figures are stark. Parsis in India numbered around 114,000 in the 1941 census and around 57,000 in 2011, a decline of roughly half in seventy years. The total fertility rate is approximately 0.8 to 1 child per woman, against a replacement level of 2.1. Around thirty percent of Parsis marry outside the community, and roughly a comparable proportion never marry at all, with median marriage ages among the highest recorded for any group. The Indian government has funded the Jiyo Parsi scheme since 2013, providing fertility treatment subsidies and advocacy; its advertising campaigns, which used slogans about being the only ones left, provoked substantial objection within the community itself.