-Newsclick.in In the Health and Survival subindex, India was ranked 146, behind Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan. India has ranked 135th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report 2022. On a scale of 0 to 1,India has scored 0.629, which is its seventh-highest score in the last 16 years. However, India has fared more poorly in the subindex Economic Participation and Opportunity, where it ranked 143, falling behind neighboring...

-The Hindu Business Line Stagnation in the area under cultivation and marginal growth in yields have capped domestic output growth, says a report Mangaluru: Even while the import-dependent edible oils market in India has been affected by geopolitical factors, the domestic production of oilseeds remains below the global average. The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of oilseeds production in India has remained at 1.94 per cent between 2011-12 and 2020-21, as against global...

-The Telegraph According to report, China’s population will decline to 1.317 billion by 2050, while India’s population will grow to 1.668 billion India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country during 2023, the United Nations said on Monday in a report forecasting global population trends over the coming decades. Both countries have around 1.4 billion people each in 2022, but an absolute decline in China’s population and continued growth in...

-ThePrint.in India home to almost 1/3 of 307 crore people who can't afford healthy diet worldwide, according to report released by UN Food and Agriculture Organization Wednesday. New Delhi: A cross-country comparison on the affordability of healthy diets shows that over 97 crore Indians, or about 71 per cent of the country’s population, are unable to afford nutritious food — compared to a 43.5 per cent figure for Asia overall, and 80...

-The New Indian Express The report finds that about 1 in 10 people worldwide are suffering from hunger and nearly 1 in 3 people lack regular access to adequate food. NEW DELHI: The climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and an increased number of conflicts around the world could lead to an additional 75 million to 95 million people living in extreme poverty in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic projections, according to The Sustainable...