India's Population

Rising population a ticking bomb, says ex VHP leader, seeks control laws

Former Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia on Sunday described India's rising population as a "ticking time bomb" and stressed the need to formulate a law to prevent its explosion and the resulting adverse effects. He also expressed hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will introduce a law for population control and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) ahead of next year's parliamentary elections. Togadia, president of Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad, was talking to reporters in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur ahead of addressing a public meeting in Basna area of state's Mahasamund district. When asked about the demand to bring a population control law, Togadia said, "The rising population and population imbalance are a time bomb and when it explodes it will lead to civil wars in cities and villages. Therefore, in order to prevent such a situation there is a need to formulate a population control law." "I believe that Narendrabhai Modi and Amitbhai .

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What to watch for after India overtakes China as most-populous nation

The challenge for India, which is estimated to grow 7% in the year ending March, is to sustain that pace of expansion in the coming decades or end up with even higher unemployment rates

India's population may have already overtaken China's, estimate analysts

The United Nations had expected the milestone to be reached later this year. As of Jan. 18, India's population had already climbed to 1.423 billion, according to WPR

As China's population declines, India set to become most populous country

In a first since 1961, population declines by 850K in 2022

China's reducing population should serve as clarion call for India: Experts

China's reducing population should serve as a clarion call for India, experts have said, asserting that any coercive measure to control population can be counter-productive

Mystery of the missing millions: Why UN projects higher India population

Its estimate of India's population by the end of the decade is 41 mn higher than TGPP's 1.47 billion

Watch this count: India's share in world population peaking, to cross China

According to the UN's projections, world population will cross nine billion in 2037 and by then, India's share of the total population would have crossed China's

World population hits 8 billion, grows 1 billion in just 12 years

In a milestone for humanity, the global population hit 8 billion on Tuesday after having added a billion people in the last 12 years, with India on the cusp of overtaking China as the world's most populous country next year. The United Nations said the global milestone signals major improvements in public health that have lowered the risk of death and increased life expectancy but the moment is also a clarion call for humanity to look beyond the numbers and meet its shared responsibility to protect people and the planet, starting with the most vulnerable. "8 billion hopes. 8 billion dreams. 8 billion possibilities. Our planet is now home to 8 billion people," the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) tweeted. Unless we bridge the yawning chasm between the global haves and have-nots, we are setting ourselves up for an 8-billion-strong world filled with tensions and mistrust, crisis and conflict, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. India is projected to surpass China as the

1% of India's adult population likely to be millionaires by 2030: Report

According to HSBC Holdings Plc. report in Bloomberg, Singapore will take over Australia and have Asia's highest share of millionaires in the adult population by 2030

Zomato, Nykaa, Nestle, Dabur: Jefferies bets big on Gen Z boom in India

Jefferies expects Gen Z's income to increase 5x as they enter the workplace and are set to surpass Millennials by the end of the decade

Women and the burden of birth control: New data tells the same old story

The fifth installment of NFHS revealed a surge in female sterilisations in 14 of India's 36 states and Union Territories

Naqvi calls population explosion 'problem of country', not religion

BJP leader and former Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that "population explosion" is not the problem of a particular religion but an issue plaguing the entire country

India to overtake China as world's most populated country in 2023: UN

Economic impact: People's productivity will have to increase to support larger numbers, say experts

India projected to surpass China's population in 2023, says UN report

The global population could grow by around 8.5 million by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and 10.4 billion by 2100, the latest UN projections stated

Population control law will be brought soon: Union Minister Prahlad Patel

Interacting with beneficiaries of various Central schemes during Gariba Kalyan Sammelan, Patel highlighted various achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the last eight years

Is a drop in India's fertility rate bad news for the economy?

Govt data reveal that India's fertility rate is declining. It is now lower than replacement levels -- implying a population decrease in the years to come. Will it hurt the economy in the long run?

Population control fiasco

The ill-advised two-child policy must be reviewed

Not law but better women education will control population: Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that educating women was the best remedy for unchecked population growth

India may overtake China as most populous country even before 2027: Report

Chinese demographers say India will become the world's most populous country earlier than the United Nations' projection of 2027