Global megatrends such as income inequality, climate change, demographic shifts, technological progress, and urbanisation are shaping the future of societies. Yet, their quantitative impacts on development
AHMEDABAD: While sex ratio in India has dipped to a historic low of 914 girls per 1,000 boys in the 0-6 age-group, numbers in Gujarat have a happy story to tell. The ratio in Gujarat has marginally improved from 883 to 886, according to 2011 census report.
Chennai city has three lakh more people living in it now than it had in 2001.
Over the last 10 years, Maharashtra has improved its literacy rate and sex ratio though the child sex ratio has taken a steep fall during the same period, pointing a finger at disappearing girls in the state.
Dramatic reverses in Ariyalur and Cuddalore Female literacy has improved in State CHENNAI: While the overall child sex ratio has improved in Tamil Nadu, the dip in the boy-girl ratio in at least 14 districts, including Chennai, provides the demographic downside in the provisional population figures of the 2011 Census released on Friday. According to the datasheet, the child sex ratio (CSR) in
Bihar might still figure among the lowest-literacy states in India, but it has surprised everyone by posting the second-highest decadal growth in female literacy rates in the country. The number of literate women in the state more than doubled from 10,4,65,201 in 2001 to 21,6,78,279 in 2011-- a 107 per cent growth, which is next only to Dadra and Nagar Haveli
With a total headcount of 68,56,509, the latest Census reveals an appreciable decline in the decadal growth rate and a marked improvement in the key indicators like literacy and female sex ratio in the hill state. The decadal (2001-2011) growth rate came down to 12.81 from 17.54 (1991-2001), which was less than 17.64 per cent for the country, and the state accounted for only 0.57 per cent of th
<p>The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011 according to Census 2011, the 15th Census of India since 1872. It also states that 2001-2011 is the first decade (with the exception of 1911-1921) which has actually added lesser population compared to the previous decade.</p> <p>See Also:</p> <p><a href="http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/prov_results_index.html">Provisional Population Totals for Census 2011</a></p> <p>Report: <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/future-population-india-long-range-demographic-view">The Future population of India</a>.<br /> <br /> Policy: <a href="http://populationcommission.nic.in/npp.htm">National Population Policy 2000</a>.<br /> <br /> Report: <a href="http://www.planningcommission.nic.in/reports/wrkpapers/wp_hwpaper.pdf">Population growth - projections</a>.<br /> <br /> Weblink: <a href="http://populationcommission.nic.in/brdr.htm">Commission on population</a>.<br /> <br /> Report: <a href="http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/report-committee-slum-statisticscensus">Committee on slum statistics</a>.<br /> <br /> Act: <a href="http://pndt.gov.in/index2.asp?slid=49&sublinkid=31">Prohibition of Sex Selection Act</a>.<br /> <br /> Report: <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/how-do-recent-population-trends-matter-climate-change">How do recent population trends matter to climate change?</a><br /> <br /> Mission: <a href="http://mohfw.nic.in/nrhm.htm">National rural health mission</a>.<br /> <br /> Report: <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/276773">India’s ecological footprint</a>.<br /> </p>
JAIPUR: The population of Rajasthan has grown by 21.44% in the last decade and currently stands at 68,621,012. The number of males in the state stands at 35,620,086 while that of females is 33,000,926.
AHMEDABAD: The state's literacy rate saw a 10.17% growth.
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa
