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 …
Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement …
To bridge the huge shortfall of police personnel, the Home Ministry has requested the 13th Finance Commission to scale up resources of state governments with the specific objective of augmenting rural policing. The Home Ministry has said that state governments need to recruit about 5.6 lakh additional police personnel to …
"It was the Urbs Prima in Indis but it is now at best an imperfect city," says the Mumbai Human Development Report-2009 about the city. The report, copyrighted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and developed with the United Nations Development Programme, India, indicates that the solution to decongesting Mumbai …
As the city deals with burgeoning population, the average number of births per day in the Capital is 915 against 295 deaths. Despite the high number, Delhi
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI: Leading the way in changing the skewed sex ratio across the country, Delhi has posted a remarkable increase in sex ratio from 820 per thousand in 2005 and 848 in 2007 to 1004 in 2008. This has been revealed by the Annual Report on Births …
IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move …
The increasing wealth of nations is accompanied by a fall in fertility such that in many developed and developing nations fertility rates have dropped below replacement value (less than 2.1 children per woman). Rapid population ageing, and in some cases the prospect of significant population decline, present difficult social and …
The population of some wealthy countries is shrinking because of a declining birth rate. It comes as a surprise, and one with policy implications, that after a certain point of development that trend can reverse.
Country's total population is likely to reach 24 crore by 2050 before the trend is reversed through different family planning programmes aimed at ensuring two children per woman, a seminar was told on Thursday. According to the statistics of the USAID, fertility has reduced to 2.7 children per woman last …
Population of Madhya Pradesh is increasing at a very fast pace. In time span of seven years 1 crore people are added to the State. In the year 2001 population of State was 6.34 crore which has now risen to approximately 7 crore. Every year population of State is increasing …
The opposition Congress in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly today shouted slogans and staged a walkout over the issue of illegal poaching of tigers and decline in the population of the big cat. Opposition members had brought posters, with pictures of tigers, along which they wore as a jacket. Below the …
Why India's population will stabilise sooner than expected Sanjeev Sanyal / July 15, 2009, 0:41 IST World Population Day was observed on July 11 and for a brief moment the world remembered an old problem. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad gave a speech on the need to control population …
Despite having one of the oldest Family Planning programmes in the region, the Pakistan's total fertility rate (TFR) has been witnessed as 4.1 children per woman, while low contraception prevalence rate (CPR) has been observed that lies 30 per cent. Regional differences stresses the need to have area specific strategies …
The quest for unlimited economic growth is unsustainable and could bankrupt the environment through climate change and depleted natural resources, Britain's Prince Charles said Wednesday. Charles, next-in-line to succeed Queen Elizabeth, said a new economic model must be found because the Earth can no longer support the demands of a …
The study of land-use pattern using remote sensing is a popular tool for researchers after the advent of high-resolution multispectral imagery. While most of the study deals with monitoring of vegetation, soil moisture and bare lands using visible, SWIR and TIR bands, little effort has been given to integrated study …
Economic stimulus cash flowing into the water sector will make this nascent $400 billion market an attractive alternative to traditional equity markets, a panel of water market experts said on Wednesday. Water shortages are on the rise, stemming from soaring demand, growing populations and rising living standards, and compounded by …
With a current population of over 165 million, Pakistan is the 6th most populous country in the world. It is estimated that the country's population would reach around 200 million by 2020. This was stated by health professionals, while talking to Business Recorder, about the "World Population Day", observed here, …
