India’s total fertility rate has fallen to 1.9, below replacement level, even as the working-age population remains dominant. The country m...

The Taliban has maintained control of Afghanistan for five years. Mounting domestic pressures include poverty and refugee returns. Internal...

Near-record food inventories, improved farming technology and stronger exporters such as Brazil and Russia are expected to cushion the glob...

Jakarta is now the world's largest city with over 41 million people. New United Nations data places it at the top. Dhaka is second, and Tok...

World’s largest city: Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, is currently the world's largest city, home to almost 42 million, followed by Dhaka wit...

The current population of 8.2 billion people will rise to that maximum over the next 60 years, then dip to 10.2 billion by the end of the c...

China now has a population of 142.57 crore, thus being the second most populous country, the UN world population dashboard showed. Accordin...

The latest projections by the United Nations suggest that the global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 20...

New Subscribers can now open an NPS account through CKYC, according to a new procedure outlined by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Developm...

Unless the prep work of skilling, reskilling, and job creation happens, India risks frittering away any demographic advantage. India is cur...

The UN expects global population to hit 8 billion on Nov. 15 and grow to 8.5 billion by 2030. More than half the projected rise between now...

The world's population could reach its peak around the end of the current century, at a level of nearly 11 billion.

In its 24th round of estimates released in 2015, it was projected that the population of India will surpass that of China's by 2022.

India, China and Brazil, countries with young populations but lower fertility, face the prospect of substantial population ageing before th...

India is expected to surpass China to become the world's most populous nation by 2022, the United Nations said today.

Delhi has become the world's second most populous city in 2014 after Tokyo, more than doubling its population since 1990 to 25 mn.

India is likely to see a much favourable demographic trend in the next three decades than neighbouring China. Budget 2010: What it means fo...