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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Blowhole dolphin population rising
PARADIP: The population of blowhole dolphin, declared as an endangered species, has recorded a gradual rise at Mahanadi river mouth in Paradip. Though no census has yet been carried out by the Forest of Fishery Department, it is estimated that there are about 150 porpoises on the Paradip coast, officials sources.
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Spare change
Resources devoted to health care systems are neither divided equitably nor in proportion to the distribution of health problems
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Next time a report on people, please!
BY coincidence, I happened to read two recent reports together. They were UNFPA's State of the World Population 1992 and Towards a Green World by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Both are lucidly
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A welcome drop
THE southern state of Kerala has performed extraordinarily in the areas of public health, education, family welfare and adult literacy. Its success in areas other than population control are easier
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Umbilical Discord
An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. Because those who survive suffer from grave deformities. S G Kabra, physician at the Indian Institute of Health
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Labour pangs?
In the last 50 years, India s population has registered a three fold increase
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Are human beings edging out all other life forms?
Northeast India occupies 8 per cent of the country s geographic area, and supports 3.8 per cent of India s total population 2001 census figures . The average population density of the Northeast is 149 persons per square kilometre sq km , a figure far be
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A look at world urban population
Homo sapien as an urban, undeveloped species >> From 1950 to 2000, the urban population of the world quadrupled
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Problem of plenty
Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam has far more rhinos than it can sustain