Some parts of India have been forced to shut down schools amid the country's declining birth rates. Economist Sanjeev Sanyal, who was previously the principal economic adviser in India's finance ...
NEW DELHI (IANS) – India’s population is projected to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, making it the world’s most populous nation, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s State of World ...
A working paper from an independent body that gives economic advice to the Indian government has published controversial findings that critics say could sow communal discord between Hindus and Muslims ...
Indian women have been urged to have a minimum of two children in a bid to reverse plummeting birth rates and boost the population. N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is the chief minister of the Andhra ...
Dattatreya Hosabale listed three causes for the “demographic imbalance” as infiltration, religious conversions, and the “high ...
Fertility rates have plummeted even in historically high-fertility, lower-income contexts like India and Bangladesh. The fertility replacement level is roughly 2.1 children per woman. This means each ...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the rise in India’s Muslim population was not due to fertility rates but because of “large-scale infiltration”. Addressing a lecture on “Infiltration, ...
The collapse in birth rates that began in post-war Europe has, in the decades since, spread to every single corner of the globe. Many nations are already feeling this death spiral, filling more ...