Population data sheet 2023
The Population Data Sheet, published annually by ESCAP, features a range of key indicators on population and development. The focus is on population size, structure and growth rates, as well as fertility,
Population Trends
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Planning, Execution
Women and impoverished, illiterate tribals fall prey to Madhya Pradesh’s overweening family planning zeal Birth Control 1951 Family planning as a policy is launched in independent India 1978
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World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel As Population Soars: U.N.
The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report
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Growth in India’s states in the first decade of the 21st century: Four facts
This paper is the first attempt at examining the growth performance across Indian states during 2001-09, a period also marked by the global financial crisis. We report four key findings. First, consistent
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Census of India 2011: provisional population totals (papers II), data highlights (urban)
The Census of India has recently published Provisional Population Totals, Paper - II of 2011: India, Volume-II. Based on this, TCPO has prepared a report which analyzes the pattern of urbanization, number
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Population drama: World population crosses 7 billion
Population drama: World population crosses 7 billion - Uttar Pradesh's newly born girl world's 7 billionth citizen.
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Country’s worst sex ratio in Navi Mumbai: Survey
Navi Mumbai, the satellite township adjacent to Mumbai, has reported what could be the lowest sex ratio in the country. A survey conducted by the City and Industrial Development Corporation of India (CIDCO)
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Census finds more than 1 in 5 US children poor
The number of children in the United States considered poor rose by 1 million in 2010, the US Census said Thursday, with more than one in five of the youngest Americans now living in poverty. ‘Children
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Seven billion and counting
The problem is not population growth but the patterns of consumption. (Editorial)
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National Development Plan: Vision for 2030
The plan charts a 20 year path towards achieving the overarching vision embedded in the Constitution that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. It breaks the five-year electoral cycle to allow for
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Pakistan’s population to reach 210m by 2020
: Pakistan’s population will reach 210 million in the next nine years by 2020 – a situation that will burden its limited resources making it difficult for them to meet the requirements of additional people.