Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
Haryana records the lowest adult sex ratio in the country, and its Jhajjar district has the worst adult and child sex ratios. THE results of the provisional Census revealed that Haryana as a whole registered the lowest adult sex ratio in the country and also had the lowest child sex …
By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” from the rate of natural resource consumption, warns a report from the United Nations Environment Programme. Developed …
Correcting The Skew... Among suggestions made for checking prenatal sex determination are: Police presence outside suspect ultrasound clinics and hospitals An online complaint forum to allow people to inform on erring clinics Mapping of districts, identification of problem regions and analysis of data to determine causative factors Tracking sex ratio …
Proportion of child population falls below nine per cent in four dists Bangalore, The percentage of children in the age group 0-6 has declined to 11.21 per cent in 2011 from 13.59 per cent in 2001, according to census figures. The decrease is 2.36 percen
JAIPUR: To attain balanced growth in the state, the state commission on urbanisation will study all major aspects related to urbanisation and will recommend long-term measures to improve the quality of life of common man. As Rajasthan is urbanising fast, the state was the first to constitute such a panel. …
Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner of India Dr C. Chandramauli releasing the provisional results of Census 2011 CENSUS 2011 is the 15th one undertaken in India since 1872 and the seventh after the country attained Independence. While there have been stray historical references to population counts of one …
Pakistan is projected to have 335 million population by 2050 that is 81.4 percent more than the existing population, an Asian Development Report 'Asia 2050, Realizing the Asian Century' says. According to the report, Asia in 2050 will be heavily influenced by the relative demographic weight of South Asia. By …
Africa's population rising fastest, might triple in this century Pressure on food, water to grow, other problems are likely The population of the world, long expected to stabilise just above nine billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year …
The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next ninety years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle of this century, according to the medium variant of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects, says this UN press release. The current world …
Demographers, social activists and concerned citizens came together here on Sunday to deliberate on the sharp decline in child sex ratio in Rajasthan, as revealed in the 2011 Census figures, and resolved to take drastic steps to check the disappearance of girl child by establishing her value in the society …
The much-awaited provisional results of Census 2011 bring the news that the child sex ratio (0-6 years) has declined further from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys, due to a widening of the circle of daughter aversion, especially across western and central India. But in all the monitoring …
The pace at which India’s population is growing is slowing, but not as rapidly as expected; India will become the largest country in the world sooner than earlier forecast. Literacy rates have increased sharply between 2001 and 2011; some of the low performing rates have shown strong improvements, the others …
The Punjab government on Monday claimed the state has been able to improve its sex ratio much ahead of neighbouring Haryana due to a series of gender-sensitive policies launched by the SAD-BJP government during the last four years. According to an official spokesman, the provisional figures of 2011 Census reflect …
