India is experiencing a demographic shift as its youthful population gives way to a growing elderly demographic. In response, Kerala has es...

India faces a demographic shift with falling fertility rates. Economists are concerned about future economic growth. Instead of financial i...

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 birth rate has fallen below the replacement level. Most states now have fewer than 2.1 children per woman. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh ...

Private equity funds are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Kerala’s healthcare sector, reshaping a system long dominated by inde...

India's unemployment rate climbed to 5% in the January-March quarter. This rise was primarily due to an increase in joblessness among women...

China 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...

In general, states widely considered less developed had a lower proportion of their population in the working-age groups. This is because m...

The 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...

As part of the initiative, a mass awareness programme related to dealing with old persons will be launched in all government.

While 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...

Apart 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...

According to the 2011 Census, the number of females per 1000 males in Haryana in 2011 stands at 879 followed by J&K 889 female.

The state recorded its slowest decadal increase in population of 4.8% between 2001 and 2011, or a compounded average annual growth rate of ...

The Kerala government isn’t rich enough to spend a lot on its old population.

The demographic reality of the district lies in the less noticeable signposts: A string of hospitals, plentiful medical shops and a number ...

Southern India - especially, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu -- is greying much faster than the rest of the country.