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Friday, September 5, 2025
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Topic: India Population

India’s fertility rate below replacement level, financial strain a key factor, finds UN report

United Nations Population Fund report ‘State of World Population 2025’ highlights India was able to slow down population growth organically via education and awareness.

NITI Aayog meet: Naidu vision plan for AP & India focuses on demographic dividend, leveraging AI

The NDA ally, who has been advocating larger families, said that with a TFR of 1.54, 'well below replacement level, and rising life expectancy, India experiencing a structural shift'.

India’s consumer crisis: A shrinking middle class & a population that’s ageing before it can get rich

Global media also noted that India’s old may face a harsh and lonely retirement, with fewer working-age adults to support the elderly and very low savings.

CMs raise issue of ‘demographic management’ during NITI Aayog meeting chaired by Modi

PM Modi, who chaired governing council meeting, encouraged states to initiate demographic management plans to address issue of an ageing population in the future.

India’s fertility rate plunged in last 70 yrs, population to shrink further by 2050 — Lancet study

The study predicts a divided world, with high-income nations facing ageing populations and low-income regions struggling with resource constraints amid high birth rates.

A massive genetic study tells us about Indians’ ancestry & perplexing presence of Neanderthals in it

Indian genome closer to Iranian farmers & steppe herders than Africans. Most significant contact between ancestral Indians & Africans was 50,000 years ago, finds preprint UC Berkeley study.

Is India’s ‘growth story’ a sign of its strength or world’s weakness? China holds the answer

The 1949 revolution raised the education of the Chinese population, but the Indian labour force remains deeply under-educated. It's one factor why Indian growth is limited to islands of prosperity.

Educated women are having fewer children. It’s not good for India’s demographic dividend

DINKs, Double Income No Kids, is a Western concept. Working couples are aspiring to live a more independent & luxurious life instead of having kids. But this can spell ruin for India's demography.

India’s elderly population to double by 2050, will exceed children by 2046, says UNFPA report

UNFPA’s ‘Caring for our elders: Institutional response-India Ageing Report 2023’, released Wednesday, says one in five people will be aged over 60 in southern states by 2036.

Christianity, polygamy, tribal insecurities — Meghalaya has a high fertility problem

The cascading impact of the high fertility rate isn’t just causing unemployment woes. It’s giving birth to a generation of malnourished children.

On Camera

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.