KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Progress in health and education can help in population stabilisation
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...
More »Explained: Where is population growth taking place? -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Which countries are driving the rise? Where are India and China placed? How will it impact the UN’s sustainable development goals? The story so far: Coinciding with the World Population Day on July 11, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, released the World Population Prospects 2022, an estimate on likely trends in global population. The global population, which stood at almost 7.9 billion in 2021,...
More »India to surpass China as most populous country in 2023: UN -GS Mudur
-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...
More »The Problem with International Migration from India -Gian Singh
-TheCitizen.in The losses outweigh the gains A report released on January 15 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimates that India has the highest number of international migrants in the world. It found that last year 18 million Indians were living abroad, followed by Mexico 11 million, Russia 11 million, China 10 million, and Syria 8 million. It estimates that 10 million or 1 crore Indians emigrated abroad...
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