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 …
Government has been taking a number of initiatives to achieve gender equity in the social sectors like health, education, etc. and to achieve gender parity on social, economic and political arena. Providing equal space for everyone is the policy of the Government of India since its independence, and this is …
Forty years after being established with a mandate to generate data on the nutritional status of socially vulnerable groups, the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) has been shut down by the Union Health Ministry. The bureau, under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), had been critical in informing the …
Africa and India have had a rich distinguished history, first ushered by Indian traders led by the seasonal monsoon winds before they upscaled their presence in the 17th century due to the abundance of spices on the East African coast. The colonial period brought with it a new demand for …
Only 27 per cent children between the ages of six months to five years are healthy in Haryana. The rest of them are anaemic and 9 per cent severely anaemic (SA). This was revealed in the PGI Chandigarh Concurrent Evaluation Survey conducted in all 21 districts of the state recently. …
This book lays out a range of policy actions that are needed at the various phases of the demographic transition and uses global and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked and what has not. Countries have a menu of options available to speed up the transition, improve …
The United Na tions has issued a dire warning to India over its abysmally high infant and maternal mortality rate. UNICEF has projected that if current trends of un der-five mortality rate con tinue, by 2030 just five coun tries will account for more than half of all under-five deaths …
This year’s Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. The report details the decline of those living in global poverty, which is …
The World Bank has revised the global poverty line, previously pegged at $1.25 a day to $1.90 a day (approximately Rs. 130). This has been arrived at based on an average of the national poverty lines of 15 poorest economies of the world. The poverty lines were converted from local …
Agartala: Tripura government will construct 8000 houses to rehabilitate shifting cultivators, who are mainly living in the tree-top houses (Tong ghar) in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomus District Council Areas constituting two-thirds of the state territory. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced that state government would provide houses to hardcore Jhumia …
Increased intake of food like cheese, food rich in trans fats, and late dinners are leading to increased abdominal obesity and increased waist-to-hip ratio, a major risk factor for heart diseases Urban women in the age group of 30-45 years have emerged as an “at risk population” for cardiovascular diseases …
Despite liberalization of the insurance sector, only around 21.6 crore people less than one-fifth of India's population are covered under health insurance. Even among those who have some form of coverage, 67% are covered by public insurance companies, according to National Health Profile 2015, compiled by Central Bureau of …
Australia's population growth has slumped to its lowest level in a decade, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have revealed on Thursday. Australia's population grew by 316,000 people, or 1.4 percent, in the year up to March 2015, but Denise Carlton from the ABS said it was …
Mouth cancer in men, gall bladder cancer in women show highest spike The National Health Profile (NHP) 2015, released by Health Minister J P Nadda on Tuesday, has reported the same grim predictions on cancer incidence in India as last year — a 20 per cent jump over the next …
Two more deaths reported in capital While the dengue epidemic continues to rage throughout the country, school-going children and those ageing between 16 to 45 years have become the easy targets to the deadly sting this time. According to the data available with the health ministry the fever has so …
India is emerging as a major driver of wealth creation among the high net worth individuals (HNWI) and recorded the largest percentage point gains - in the Asia Pacific region and globally - in HNWI population (26.3 per cent to 1.98 lakh) and wealth (28.2 per cent to $785 billion). …
MUMBAI: The BMC has received Rs 8 crore from the state government to build public toilets in the city under the Modi-government promoted Swachh Bharat campaign. Around 11 lakh people use public toilets and the BMC already provides most of them, said an officer. In 2014, the Centre has issued …
Rapid urbanisation will have huge economic, social and environmental implications. This paper summarise the urbanisation dynamics of sub-Saharan Africa's largest cities using new data on population,GDP and carbon emissions up to 2030, to provide an understanding of the scale and pace of change in sub-Saharan Africa's cities and their contribution …
Delhi Tops List Of Deadly Cities With 1,671 Dying In 2014 India's killer roads claimed the lives of 75,000 people aged between 15 and 34 years last year. Over 82% of these victims were males, according to the Road Accident Report for 2014 prepared by the road transport and highways …
"Seismic changes" in temperatures and sea levels could create waves of refugees forced to abandon traditional homes and fight for food and water, US secretary of state John Kerry has said as he sought commitment from the international community to address the challenge posed by climate change. "Climate is not …
Britain looks set to overtake Germany as the European Union's most populous country by 2050, according to statistical agency Eurostat. If current migration and birth rate trends are maintained, the UK will number 77.2 million people at that point, compared to Germany's 74.7 million. Subsequently Britain's population will continue to …
