United Nations Population Fund report ‘State of World Population 2025’ highlights India was able to slow down population growth organically via education and awareness.
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'.
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.
PM Modi, who chaired governing council meeting, encouraged states to initiate demographic management plans to address issue of an ageing population in the future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One can feel the difference the moment the train enters Kerala—cleaner railway platforms, more hygienic food stalls, orderly passengers, no stench, and, of course, fresh air.
Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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