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 …
London: British MPs on the International Development Committee placed the country’s most exhaustive assessment of food security in parliament on Tuesday that has thrown up some seriously worrying findings. They fear that food wastage globally could be as high as 50%. “Some of this wastage occurs in developing countries as …
PUNE: The state government's plan to inspect sonography clinics and abortion centres in a month-long drive has fallen flat within three days of its launch as only a few district and civic administrations have formed the teams that were meant to carry out these surprise checks. The state authorities have …
PUNE: All government and private hospitals are now required to keep a display board of the sex ratio at birth, based on the number of deliveries of boys and girls taking place on their premises. The state government, in a letter issued on May 31, has directed civil surgeons and …
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030. In September 2000 the heads of 147 governments pledged that they would halve the proportion of people on the Earth living in the direst poverty by 2015, using the poverty rate in 1990 …
Steep fall in child sex ratio and population in the 0-6 age-group in Census 2011 has brought back the spotlight on pre-natal sex determination by couples in Orissa. The child sex ratio (0-6 years) fell from 953 to 941, the lowest since 1961. Nayagarh district from where several dead foetus …
RANCHI: At a time when there is 22.4% growth in the overall population in Jharkhand, that of the scheduled tribe, for whom the state was carved out of Bihar, has declined by 0.1%. The Primary Census Abstract 2011, released by the directorate of census operation on Friday, showed that total …
This report analyzes comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programs in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) used its Social Protection Index to help assess the nature and the effectiveness of these programs, as well as to facilitate cross-country comparisons. This project based …
Notwithstanding several measures taken by the Government to secure the future of children, particularly the girl child, there has been a decline in the child population in Uttar Pradesh. More importantly, there has been a considerable fall in the child sex ratio over the past decade, according to the final …
LUCKNOW: Raising questions on the efficacy of government intervention to prevent female foeticide in Uttar Pradesh, Census 2011 data has registered a steep decline of 14 point in the state's child sex ratio. Referring to the number of girls between the age of 0 and 6 years for every 1,000 …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's child sex ratio (CSR) in the 0-6 age group has improved by seven points from 883 in 2001 to 890 in 2011. In last decade, Mehsana, the district with the lowest sex ratio of 801 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001- improved by 41 points and took its …
Shimla, May 26: With the vulture population in the state going up from a mere 30 to 800 in the last one decade, the wildlife wing of the Forest Department has decided to identify new protected areas and set up vulture restaurants for the natural scavengers whose number had plummeted. …
The population of Bangalore grew by about 30 lakh in 10 years, but its social indicators nosedived. The Primary Abstract of the Census of India 2011, released on Thursday, puts the city's population at 96,21,551 — a growth of 47.18% during 2001-2011. The city has the lowest sex ratio of …
Guwahati, May 23: Minority-dominated Dhubri district has recorded the highest population growth rate in Assam while Kokrajhar has recorded the lowest, according to the 2011 census, the final findings of which were released today. Assam ranks 14th in the country in terms of population. While Assam recorded a population growth …
In Assam, where the social status of women is high in comparison to some other states, the female population recorded a growth rate of 19.7 per cent during the last decade compared to 18.2 per cent males against the previous decade’s 18.5 per cent and 15.7 per cent. The growth …
MADURAI: In what may come as a surprise package to the farming community, the number of farmers in Madurai district has increased marginally, even as there is a decline at the national level. In 2001, there were 3.1 lakh land holdings or farmers for a population of 25.78 lakh in …
Most districts of South Haryana have fared poorly on the sex ratio, final population figures of Census 2011 for the State released on Wednesday have revealed. The sex ratio has gone up from 861 in 2001 to 879 in 2011, but it is still less than the all-India sex ratio …
The 2011 Census has brought both good and bad news for Gurgaon. The fast developing city, according to census figures, has the highest literacy rate and the worst sex ratio in the state. The data shows that Gurgaon has a literacy rate of 84.7 per cent, followed by Panchkula at …
The final Census data has brought out an overall improvement in sex ratio in the state from 968 to 972 over a decade, but a declining trend in the rural areas is a cause of concern. While the sex ratio in urban areas increased from 795 to 853, it came …
Mumbai: Mumbai witnessed a 44% rise in the number of abortions last year, data from the city’s municipal body has shown.While 19,701 abortions were registered in 2011, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data from various public and private hospitals and nursing homes in 2012 showed 28,455 abortions. Experts say the increase …
The census shows that Kerala has a literacy rate of 94 per cent. The child population in Kerala has shown a declining trend. The final population totals of Census 2011 issued by the Directorate of Census Operations reveal a negative growth rate of the child population in the State (- …
