Page 6 - Population

Gen Z and millennials: Reshaping the future of the Indian workforce

Massive fresher hiring the past few years has pushed share of Gen Z to 18-20% and Millennials to 68-70% of total tech industry employee base in FY22

Get on with Census

Crucial demographic exercise cannot wait for next elections

Wealth & inequality as derivatives of time

As the world population grows, it is also getting wealthier. If the resources of our planet are limited, how is this possible?

Majority of China's population may contract Covid, warns health adviser

About 80 to 90% of the Chinese population may eventually be infected with the virus

Japan births at record low as population shrinks and ages: Official

The number of babies born in Japan this year is below last year's record low in what the the top government spokesman described as a critical situation. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno promised comprehensive measures to encourage more marriages and births. The total of 599,636 Japanese born in January-September was 4.9% below last year's figure, suggesting the number of births in all of 2022 might fall below last year's record low of 811,000 babies, he said. Japan is the world's third biggest economy but living costs are high and wage increases have been slow. The conservative government has lagged on making society more inclusive for children, women and minorities. So far, the government's efforts to encourage people to have more babies have had limited impact despite payments of subsidies for pregnancy, childbirth and child care. The pace is even slower than last year ... I understand that it is a critical situation, Matsuno said. Many younger Japanese have balked at

Need strict laws to bring population under control, says Giriraj Singh

Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday said a law should be brought to control population in the country, adding China achieved economic progress by controlling its population

Mystery of the missing millions: Why UN projects higher India population

Its estimate of India's population by the end of the decade is 41 mn higher than TGPP's 1.47 billion

TMS Ep309: Tax Rationalisation, OTT Content, Equity Market, Population

Why is India Inc batting for the small guy? What makes India's top OTT stories click? Is Indian stock market losing steam? What's the future of world population and India's share in it? Answers here

How has India's share in the world population changed since 1950?

India is set to take over China as the world's most populous country in a few months from now. Let us find out how India's share in the world population has changed since 1950

How has India's share in the world population changed since 1950?

India is set to take over China as the world's most populous country in a few months from now. Let us find out how India's share in the world population has changed since 1950

Removing vaccination mandate for incoming tourists correct move: Experts

With over 90% of population being vaccinated, it is okay at a policy level to relax the mandatory vaccination norm for entering India, they say

Statsguru: The next billion people will come from poorer nations

Lower fertility rates indicate that the addition of the next 1 billion will take 15 years

Best of BS Opinion: Voting against self-interest, fiscal deficit, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today:

SC refuses to entertain pleas on two-child norm for controlling population

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a batch of pleas, including one seeking steps for enforcing a two-child norm to control the rising population, saying it is for the government to look at the issue. Citing media reports about India's population stabilising despite the rise in births, the apex court said it is not an issue where the court should interfere. "Population is not something that one fine day it stops," a bench of Justices S K Kaul and A S Oka observed orally. Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, one of the petitioners, said a report from the Law Commission on the issue is very important. Upadhyay had filed a petition in the top court challenging an order of the Delhi High Court dismissing a plea seeking certain steps, including a two-child norm, to control the rising population. After the apex court said it was not inclined to entertain the plea, he withdrew it. Besides his plea, the bench also refused to entertain some other petitions filed on the issue, ...

Finland needs 50,000 immigrants per year by 2050 to fill job vacancies

Technology Finland said on Wednesday that the industry alone, the most significant export sector in Finland, will need 130,000 new experts in the next 10 years

Watch this count: India's share in world population peaking, to cross China

According to the UN's projections, world population will cross nine billion in 2037 and by then, India's share of the total population would have crossed China's

Global population hits 8 bn: How it changes the world over next few decades

Much of the world's population growth has come in the last century as better living standards and health advancements extended life expectancy

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Live news updates: The UN said that it took about 12 years for the world population to grow from 7 to 8 billion

World crossing 8 billion population an opportunity for India: Experts

The global population reaching eight billion should be seen as an opportunity with people as creators of resources, experts said on Tuesday but stressed that focus should be on equity and equality as well as caring for the aging populace. The world population touched eight billion on Tuesday and India was the largest contributor to the milestone, having added 177 million people, the United Nations said, noting that for China, which added 73 million people, the projection is its contribution to the next billion in the global population is to be in the negative. The Population Foundation of India (PFI) said this milestone should be seen as an opportunity for India to plan better and provide a healthy and happy life for all eight billion people. "We must celebrate the day the world population reaches eight billion," the it had earlier said. According to the United Nations' World Population Prospects-2022, released on July 11 (World Population Day), the global population was projected t

With 177 mn, India largest contributor to global population milestone: UN

As the world population touched 8 billion on Tuesday, India was the largest contributor to the milestone, having added 177 million people, while China, whose contribution to the next billion in the global population is projected to be in the negative, the UN said. India is expected to surpass China as the world's most populous nation by next year. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA), in a special graphic to mark the global population reaching eight billion, said Asia and Africa has driven much of this growth is expected to drive the next billion by 2037, while Europe's contribution will be negative due to declining population. The world added a billion people in the last 12 years. UNFPA said that as the world adds the next billion to its tally of inhabitants, China's contribution will be negative. India, the largest contributor to the 8 billion (177 million) will surpass China, which was the second largest contributor (73 million) and whose contribution to the next billion will be ...