Congress leader Jairam Ramesh raises concerns over delimitation and central fund distribution. He argues southern states controlling popula...

The Sample Registration System report 2023 shows that India's Total Fertility Rate is now 1.9. Rural India's rate has reached the replaceme...

Population Foundation of India advocates for a shift in population policies. They emphasize dignity, rights, and opportunities, especially ...

India's population has reached 1.46 billion in 2025, surpassing China as the world's most populous nation, even with a declining fertility ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu proposes allowing only those with more than two children to contest municipal and panchay...

K.T. Rama Rao criticizes Chandrababu Naidu's call for increased birth rates, arguing that southern states shouldn't be penalized for succes...

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 the past one year, while the clamour for a population control Bill was witnessed in several states, Karnataka, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, ...

The government is also planning to re-strategise its campaigns to fight anaemia, officials said. The data in NFHS 2019-21 showed that anaem...

The fifth survey was conducted between 2019 and 2021 in two phases. Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya...

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international working president Alok Kumar said the proposal to incentivise couples to have just one child will...

SRS is the largest demographic survey in the country mandated to provide annual estimates of fertility as well as mortality indicators.

India's population is expected to grow under 0.5 per cent due to dip in fertility rate & increase in life expectancy.

The Constitution gives the bulk of taxation power to the Centre, but leaves most of the responsibility for providing basic services to stat...

In Chhattisgarh, the Muslim TFR of 2.1 was lower than the 2.2 for Hindus, and in Odisha Muslims had the lowest TFR among the three sizeable...

"24 States and UTs having already achieved the replacement level of fertility of 2.1," Health Minister J P Nadda said.

"The maximum Crude Birth Rate has been reported in Bihar (27.6) and the minimum in Kerala (14.7)," Sample Registration System survey said.