Population Growth Rate

Incidents of student suicides in India have grown at an alarming annual rate, surpassing the population growth rate and overall suicide trends, according to a new report.

Periodic Labour Force Survey or PLFS data of the last six years indicates an improving trend in labour participation rate and worker population ratio.

China's population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed Wednesday, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country battles a looming demographic crisis.

Infosys Co-founder Narayana Murthy today warned about the consequences of India's high population growth rate and said the country did not put population control on the "front burner" since mid-70s.

The GDP of India, powered by its 1.4 billion population, is expected to expand dramatically and the country will become the world's second-largest economy by 2075, a research by Goldman Sachs has found.

Age discrimination affects not only the worker's career growth but also big personal decisions of having a marriage, building a house and having children.

According to a recent research, the world's population could reach 8.5 billion by 2050 before declining to 7 billion by 2100.

The death rate in China's capital Beijing surpassed its birth rate in 2022, official data showed on Tuesday, pushing its natural population growth into negative territory for the first time since 2003.

China was for decades preoccupied with the prospect of runaway population growth and imposed a strict one-child policy from 1980 to 2015 to keep numbers in check. But now the UN expects China's population to shrink from next year.

The Bihar Chief Minister pointed out that "if a girl is matriculate, the fertility rate on an average comes down to two per cent, and if she has completed school education, it further falls to 1.7 per cent nationally”.

Mohan Bhagwat, in call for population control policy at RSS annual Dussehra rally in Nagpur, cites Kosovo and South Sudan as examples of new countries that emerged "because of imbalance" among religions in a population

The JD(U) lashed out at Bihar BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal for coming up with "misleading" data on population growth rate in two districts of the state, alleging that he was trying to incite communal hatred among people.

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US companies are facing a "new era", when there are fewer people entering the workforce, but the pressure to pay higher salaries may become permanent. He states major markets overseas have seen outright labour force declines.

Despite being the second-most populous country in the world, the daily growth rate of novel coronavirus cases in India has been coming down continuously from around 31 per cent in March to 3.24 per cent on July 12, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The Union Environment Ministry on Saturday stressed that four surveys since 2006 have shown a healthy annual growth rate of 6 per cent in India's tiger population, offsetting natural losses and keeping their numbers at the habitats-carrying capacity level.

Incidents of student suicides in India have grown at an alarming annual rate, surpassing the population growth rate and overall suicide trends, according to a new report.

Periodic Labour Force Survey or PLFS data of the last six years indicates an improving trend in labour participation rate and worker population ratio.

China's population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed Wednesday, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country battles a looming demographic crisis.

Infosys Co-founder Narayana Murthy today warned about the consequences of India's high population growth rate and said the country did not put population control on the "front burner" since mid-70s.

The GDP of India, powered by its 1.4 billion population, is expected to expand dramatically and the country will become the world's second-largest economy by 2075, a research by Goldman Sachs has found.

Age discrimination affects not only the worker's career growth but also big personal decisions of having a marriage, building a house and having children.

According to a recent research, the world's population could reach 8.5 billion by 2050 before declining to 7 billion by 2100.

The death rate in China's capital Beijing surpassed its birth rate in 2022, official data showed on Tuesday, pushing its natural population growth into negative territory for the first time since 2003.

China was for decades preoccupied with the prospect of runaway population growth and imposed a strict one-child policy from 1980 to 2015 to keep numbers in check. But now the UN expects China's population to shrink from next year.

The Bihar Chief Minister pointed out that "if a girl is matriculate, the fertility rate on an average comes down to two per cent, and if she has completed school education, it further falls to 1.7 per cent nationally”.

Mohan Bhagwat, in call for population control policy at RSS annual Dussehra rally in Nagpur, cites Kosovo and South Sudan as examples of new countries that emerged "because of imbalance" among religions in a population

The JD(U) lashed out at Bihar BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal for coming up with "misleading" data on population growth rate in two districts of the state, alleging that he was trying to incite communal hatred among people.

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US companies are facing a "new era", when there are fewer people entering the workforce, but the pressure to pay higher salaries may become permanent. He states major markets overseas have seen outright labour force declines.

Despite being the second-most populous country in the world, the daily growth rate of novel coronavirus cases in India has been coming down continuously from around 31 per cent in March to 3.24 per cent on July 12, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The Union Environment Ministry on Saturday stressed that four surveys since 2006 have shown a healthy annual growth rate of 6 per cent in India's tiger population, offsetting natural losses and keeping their numbers at the habitats-carrying capacity level.