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 …
A housing and population census would take place for the 14th time on July 14, 2011, a senior official of the Department of Census and Statistics said, adding that maps and charts of 14,013 Grama Niladhari areas had already been prepared to conduct the census. A housing and population census …
All is set to continue the health, population and nutrition sector programme for the third consecutive time involving estimated Tk 25,000 crore as the second programme ends next June, health ministry officials said Wednesday. The first five-year Health and Population Sector Programme ran between 1998 and 2003 involving nearly Tk …
Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relatively optimistic projections suggest that family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the …
NEW DELHI: Stressing the need to bring back population control on the national discourse without reminding people of the Emergency days, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Thursday, called for a holistic approach to deal with the issue. Speaking at a meeting of the National Commission on Population
Substantial changes in population size, age structure, and urbanization are expected in many parts of the world this century. Although such changes can affect energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, emissions scenario analyses have either left them out or treated the min a fragmentary or overly simplified manner. We carry …
The population living in urban slums grew more slowly than the overall urban population between 1991 and 2001, suggesting an exclusionary nature of urban growth. This was also revealed in the form of massive slum evictions and a low incidence of rural-urban and urban-urban migration among classes with low monthly …
Actual Population May Rise After Phase II of Census Bharat Yagnik | TNN Ahmedabad: The number of houses in Ahmedabad has jumped up by at least 2 lakh in the last decade. The ongoing census data collection has highlighted this fact. According to officials at Directorate of Census Operation (DCO), …
Rajiv Shah TNN Gandhinagar: The new Ahmedabad may seem more plush and attractive, but latest population figures reveal that the city is ready to touch 55 lakh, and this is mainly owing to the phenomenal rise in population density in the old city limits. Sources told TOI that the population …
NEW DELHI: Delhi's unique distinction of being one of the few States to have a positive sex ratio has been short-lived. For the first time after 2008, when the Capital recorded 1,004 births of girls for every 1,000 boys, the figure fell to 915 in 2009, according to the Annual …
IN THE second decade of the 21st century, the environment has found an irredeemable place in the international economic discourse. It was not always like this. In the 1990s, establishment development thinkers accommodated the environment only as an afterthought when it came to countries like India and China because the …
