India projected to be world’s most populous country next year: UN Report

The world population will reach 8 billion November 15, 2022

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 punitive action to control population, India commits in Nairobi

Global commitment comes at a time when demand for punitive actions have grown back home

A new epoch: Human population to peak in 44 years

Global population estimated to touch 9.73 bln in 2064, then decline to 8.79 bln in 36 years

Population populism: Assam’s population control policy: A misguided approach?

The attempt on the part of the incumbent government, to project the Bengali Muslim community as a civilisational threat to Assam’s …

Population populism: What led to the faster decline in fertility in recent decades?

Effective delivery of family planning services, strong incentives and disincentives led to decline in fertility rates  

Revised global population forecast predicts slight increase

Instead of 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, population will touch 8.6 billion in 2030 and 9.8 billion in 2050 

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

Is Chandrababu’s call for more children an indirect push for Amaravati megacity

Andhra chief minister's new-found concern about declining population may have something to do with his plans for a grand new capital city

China’s birth rate drops to record low in 2021

In 2021, China’s birth rate was 0.752% versus a death rate of 0.718%

Dementia cases in India to double by 2050, Lancet study shows

Worldwide, the caseload is set to almost triple by 2050

Anger of the jobless youth

Their frustrations in an unjust world can take various expressions—a fidayeen in Iraq, a stone pelter in Kashmir, a mercenary in Saudi …

India’s population to overtake China’s by 2028; can it leverage the advantage?

Revised UN estimates show India’s population could overtake China’s sooner than expected, and have more young and working age people …

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

Scientists solve genetic puzzle surrounding Mundas

Study says genetic makeup of Mundas is a result of interaction that happened 2,000-4,000 years ago between Indian Dravidian and …

Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh worst states to be born in

Infant mortality, neo-natal mortality and maternal mortality are much higher in these states as compared to national average

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

Africa to house 86% of the world’s poorest by 2050

Population growth in Africa is a major reason for high concentration of people living in extreme poverty, says a report

The real bad news

The most prosperous regions and communities in India have a bias against the female sex. Religion-based data shows us the biggest development …

A scholar among bureaucrats

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India's population: Demographic changes along expected lines

Coercion must be avoided; budgetary allocations raised

The high moral ground

The abortion issue was given more importance than it deserved at the recent Cairo conference on population

Economic Survey 2018-19: School going population peaks as fertility rate declines

Nine states, which have fertility rates well below the replacement rate, will have an aged population by 2030s