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KERALA AGEING POPULATION
How are you, dad? A lush-green Indian state is grappling with an ageing problemKerala, India's fastest-ageing state, is emerging as a blueprint for tackling the country's ageing population and elderly care challenges. ...- India performs world's third highest number of organ transplants, yet demand outpaces supplyIndia's organ transplant situation is dire, with 3.9 lakh needed just in 2021, emphasizing the escalating demand. Unfortunately, only a fra...
- Women lead India's higher education boom, outpace men in GERWomen now lead India's higher education enrolment, with their Gross Enrolment Ratio reaching 31.2%. This trend has solidified over three ye...
- Kerala's silver linings playbook for IndiaIndia is experiencing a demographic shift as its youthful population gives way to a growing elderly demographic. In response, Kerala has es...
- More working women, not more babies, key to growthIndia faces a demographic shift with falling fertility rates. Economists are concerned about future economic growth. Instead of financial i...
- Is India winning the wrong battle on infant mortality?India's infant mortality rate has significantly dropped to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. This progress is largely due to a surge...
- India’s fertility rate falls below replacement level; highest in Bihar, lowest in DelhiIndia's birth rate has fallen below the replacement level. Most states now have fewer than 2.1 children per woman. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh ...
- Kerala’s healthcare gold rush: How private equity is reshaping hospitals and raising fears over costsPrivate equity funds are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Kerala’s healthcare sector, reshaping a system long dominated by inde...
- India’s jobless rate rises to 5% in Q4India's unemployment rate climbed to 5% in the January-March quarter. This rise was primarily due to an increase in joblessness among women...
- China's reducing population should serve as clarion call for India: ExpertsChina has witnessed a declining trend in proportion of people in the age group of 15-59 years, from 22.9 percentage points in 2000, 16.6 pe...
- Nearly 2/3rds of Indians are of working age, between 15 and 59In general, states widely considered less developed had a lower proportion of their population in the working-age groups. This is because m...
- Sonepur ban may hit supply of elephants to KeralaThe Sonepur event is one of the biggest in Asia and will be held in the last week of November. Until last year, it was a marketplace for ca...
- Kerala takes initiatives to become 'senior citizen-friendly'As part of the initiative, a mass awareness programme related to dealing with old persons will be launched in all government.
- Kerala to become zero population growth state, says State Eco ReviewWhile the national rate of growth of population in the last 10 years is 17.6 per cent, the growth rate of state population during the perio...
- Massive spike in number of widowsApart from the increasing life expectancy, there is most often an age gap between men and women during marriage and it is more than 5 years...
- Sex ratio in Haryana worst among all statesAccording to the 2011 Census, the number of females per 1000 males in Haryana in 2011 stands at 879 followed by J&K 889 female.
- Kerala set to see fall in population growthThe state recorded its slowest decadal increase in population of 4.8% between 2001 and 2011, or a compounded average annual growth rate of ...
- God’s own country, for old menThe Kerala government isn’t rich enough to spend a lot on its old population.
- Kerala’s declining birth and death rates creating imbalance; state has more females than malesThe demographic reality of the district lies in the less noticeable signposts: A string of hospitals, plentiful medical shops and a number ...
- As south greys, poor states will be most youthfulSouthern India - especially, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu -- is greying much faster than the rest of the country.
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