China’s shrinking population may lead to xenophobia, threaten CCP’s hold on power: Geeta Kochhar

Down To Earth speaks to China expert from JNU on the latest population figures  

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

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

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

Cashing in on India’s demographic dividend

India will have the demographic dividend for another decade. It takes massive skill update to translate this advantage into a development bonanza

Niger is Africa’s fastest growing country — how to feed 25 million more people in 30 years

Reducing population growth rate and investments in women’s education & labour force participation among other steps needed

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

Population populism: UP bill should empower, not control people

Solution to population problem lies in ensuring socio-economic development by addressing issues of adolescent sexual and reproductive health, …

India will be greyer by 2050, women will live longer than men: India Ageing Report 2023

Population statistics usually refer to the population aged 60 or 65 years and above as 'old'

Why the world needs a new wave of migration

Migrants would sustain the developed countries’ economy in the near future as their working population hits record low

Zimbabwe's cheetah population declines by 85%

Historically, Zimbabwe and other regions in Africa have inhabited large cheetah populations 

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

Andamanese threatened by development

The indigenous population of the Andaman and Nicobar islands might very soon be extinct. Today the combined population of the four indigenous …

Cabinet approves National Population Register update

The exercise will be held in 2020 from April to September, along with the house-listing phase of Census 2021

The world is approaching ‘peak youth’ point

A UN report calls on governments to draft policies to realise the demographic dividend before the proportion of young population starts declining

Mortality rates in working Americans on the rise

Women and adults without diploma the worst hit