-Hindustan Times The World Population Prospects 2022 recently highlighted that India’s Total fertility Rate had come down from 5.9 children per woman in 1950 to 2.2 children per woman in 2020, just shy of 2.1 replacement level fertility. BJP MP Ravi Kishan will introduce private members' bill on Population control today, days after Union minister Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha that the government is not contemplating any legislative measures for...

With the release of a UNDESA report on the World Population Day this year i.e., July 11, once again the debate on who's responsible for the Population growth in India has resurfaced. Titled World Population Prospects 2022, the report states that the global Population is expected to touch 8 billion on November 15, 2022, and India is projected to exceed China as the world’s most populous country in 2023.  As soon as...

-The Telegraph The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out weather variations, global warming, and water scarcity can adversely affect food production Climate change and the agrarian crisis are intertwined. They are manifest in the threat to food and nutritional security. These challenges have been further aggravated by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and reduced global food production. The looming hunger crisis is especially potent for vulnerable Populations living in...

-IndiaSpend.com Indian surveys undercount persons with disability because of the way they define those with disabilities and frame questions, leading to misleading estimates being used to frame welfare policies and programmes. Patna: If data from the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) are considered, India's Population of people with a disability has reduced to 1% between 2019 and 2021, from the 2.2% (26.8 million) estimated by the Indian census in 2011, and...

-IndiaSpend.com The United Nations projects that India's total Population will surpass China's much sooner than expected, but even so, data show that India's Population is actually declining, says Poonam Muttreja of the Population Foundation of India Mumbai: "What could women do if they wanted fewer children? They were opting for, amongst other things, abortion," says Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India. "Abortion rates as a proxy for contraception...