India's population: Demographic changes along expected lines

Coercion must be avoided; budgetary allocations raised

India's population: Boom to bust

Population stabilises at total fertility rate ogf 2.1. In India, 20 states and Union territories are below that

India's population: 'Curb the number of rich children'

Reducing the population by 10% has the same effect on emissions as reducing the average consumption by 10%

India's population: Every addition to the optimum level is a burden on the state

Message should go to people that if they think in the interest of the state, the state will take care of them as well

आबादी, श्राप या संसाधन?

दुनिया को ऐसे विचारों की जरूरत है जो तय कर पाएं कि जनसंख्या श्राप है या संसाधन क्योंकि जनसंख्या को श्राप बताते वाले कई ...

Baby boom or doom?

POPULATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg Oxford University Press

The shrinking family

Fertility transition

Falling count

Dwindling birth rates have become a cause for alarm in Europe

DIRTY SEX

Every 10 years, the census of India comes out with a damning statistic: the country's abysmal female-male ratio. As per the 2001 census, there …

India's population: 1.37 billion and not counting

India, like the rest of the world, is intensely debating population explosion. But while countries are struggling to keep their numbers at …

No cause for panic

Old is cold

Early education is the key to reducing birth rate

Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive …

जनसंख्या नियंत्रण कानून: क्या आबादी वाकई विस्फोट के कगार पर है?

केंद्र सरकार देश में जनसंख्या नियंत्रण कानून लागू करनी चाहती है। डाउन टू अर्थ ने इस मुद्दे का व्यापक विश्लेषण किया। प्रस्तुत है दूसरी ...

The declining infant mortality rate indicates that our growth rate will decline further

Amulya Ratna Nanda, registrar-general and census commissioner of India, feels the country has made some progress in bringing down its growth rate

UNITED NATIONS

भारत में जनसंख्या की रफ्तार स्थिर, क्या फिर भी है कड़े कानून की जरूरत

आरएसएस प्रमुख मोहन भागवत ने हाल ही में सरकार को जनसंख्या नियंत्रण के लिए कानून बनाने की सलाह दी है। क्या देश को वाकई ...

India, China share global burden of mental illnesses

The overall population growth in India explains a greater proportion of the increase in mental, neurological and substance-use disorders

Centuries of scarcity

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China

Road salt can change sex ratios in frog populations, finds study

The researchers found that the proportion of females reduced by 10 per cent when exposed to road salt

Showing the way

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

In Short

Are human beings edging out all other life forms?

Northeast India occupies 8 per cent of the country's geographic area, and supports 3.8 per cent of India's total population (2001 census figures).…