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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The high moral ground
The abortion issue was given more importance than it deserved at the recent Cairo conference on population
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, …
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
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
Rural migration may alter Uttarakhand‘s political geography
Around 32 lakh migrated from Uttarakhand’s rural areas since the state's inception
Economics of population
The 15th Finance Commission has recommended the use of Census 2011 instead of the norm of considering Census 1971, and this change has led to …
Kenya is losing about 100 lions each year for the past decade
Pastoral communities in Kenya are on a warpath with the endangered lions as habitats are disappearing
Population checks will not solve environmental problems: study
Even one-child policy imposed globally would keep population at the current levels in 2100
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
Population prompts progress
The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional
Farm community abandons old practice
A Nepalese community that grows vegetables using traditional techniques is now succumbing to population pressures and rapid urbanisation.
Baby boom or doom?
POPULATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg Oxford University Press
Human locusts?
BEYOND NUMBERS: A READER ON POPULATION, CONSUMPTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by Laurie Ann Mazur Island press
Closing in on problems
URBANISATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH·Vibhooti Shukla· Oxford University Press, Delhi · 1996
China’s population grew older and richer: Policy lessons for some African countries
China capitalised on its demographic profile through policies which captured the working-age population
Nigeria’s cities are growing fast: Family planning must be part of urban development plans
Urban poverty that already afflicts 42% of urban residents in Nigeria is set to rise
7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support?
Data suggests that the Earth can support at most one-fifth of the present population, 1.5 billion people, at an American standard of living