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 …

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).…

Umbilical Discord

An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. …

Beyond The Billion

If post-Independence leaders of India had ensured full literacy, a solution would have been in sight for a lot of problems. Population, for one. …

Desperately seeking skills & jobs

India has a youth bulge in its population, accounting for the largest number of young working age people in the world. This demographic …

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: Boom to bust

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

Population populism: UP has no option left but to control its population

State-led control of population might be criticised, but it will help us in the long run to stabilise the population growth in Uttar Pradesh

China will allow couples to have three children

The new policy change will come with "supportive measures” including lower educational costs for families and step up tax and housing support

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

Baby boom or doom?

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

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 …

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 …

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

The earth now has 8 billion humans; is the notion of a ‘finite planet’ a myth?

More than numbers, humanity needs to consider how resources are produced and distributed, what is consumed, by whom, and how much

Population: Has bio-politics arrived in India?

A collection of articles which re-examine the population debate in the light of the BJP-ruled Assam and Uttar Pradesh proposing population-…

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

Book>>Famine: A Short History • by Cormac O’ Grada • Princeton University Press • Rs 600

Japan’s demographic decline shows that conformism does not always work: Srabani Roy Choudhury

Down To Earth speaks to JNU Japan expert about the ‘now or never’ statement by Japanese premier Fumio Kishida on his country’s …

8 billion people: why trying to control the population is often futile – and harmful

Rather than trying to increase or decrease the number of people, we must build a planet that enables everyone to live their lives freely, …

How is India’s population ageing? Evidence from LASI

An integrative approach to align the needs of elderly as well as older adults in programmes and policies is the need of hour

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

India’s population question

Population per se is not the determinant of environmental problems; it is their consumption pattern that leads to environmental degradation

Why the debate over India’s population explosion is on the wrong track

According to government data, India’s Total Fertility Rate has already reached replacement levels

Global warming, land use hit European mountain bird population

Mountain specialist birds registered a 10 per cent decline in numbers in 13 years, says a study