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World population hits 8 billion, grows 1 billion in just 12 years

In a milestone for humanity, the global population hit 8 billion on Tuesday after having added a billion people in the last 12 years, with India on the cusp of overtaking China as the world's most populous country next year. The United Nations said the global milestone signals major improvements in public health that have lowered the risk of death and increased life expectancy but the moment is also a clarion call for humanity to look beyond the numbers and meet its shared responsibility to protect people and the planet, starting with the most vulnerable. "8 billion hopes. 8 billion dreams. 8 billion possibilities. Our planet is now home to 8 billion people," the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) tweeted. Unless we bridge the yawning chasm between the global haves and have-nots, we are setting ourselves up for an 8-billion-strong world filled with tensions and mistrust, crisis and conflict, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. India is projected to surpass China as the

World population projected to hit 8 billion people today: UN estimates

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 2050 and 10.4 billion in 2100.

Story in charts: World nears 8 bn mark, India must focus on human capital

In 2026, the age group of 25 and 29 will have the highest number of people, and in 2036, India's largest population group will be in the late 30s

Why a more populous world will need different rules of governance

The western obsession with individual freedoms, which has been globalised after 1945, may need to give way to a more realistic approach wherein groups become the units of governance

Religion-based population imbalance cannot to be ignored: RSS chief

Population imbalances lead to changes in geographical boundaries, says Mohan Bhagwat at a Vijayadasami event

Croatia's population falls by almost 10% in a decade: 2021 Census

Croatia's population has decreased by 413,056 persons or 9.64 per cent over the past decade, the final results of the country's 2021 census revealed

JD(U) flays Bihar BJP chief over misleading population growth rate figures

The JD(U) on Friday lashed out at Bihar BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal for coming up with misleading data on population growth rate in two districts of the state, alleging that he was trying to incite communal hatred among people. Jaiswal had on Wednesday claimed that population growth rate in Kishanganj and Araria districts was the "highest in the world", partly due to the alleged high rate of influx of Bangladeshi infiltrators. All BJP leaders, including Jaiswal, are engaged in inciting communal hatred among people in the state to derive political mileage They (BJP) are doing this as Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Bihar on September 24, JD(U) leaders Neeraj Kumar and Arvind Nishad said in a statement. Jaiswal is giving wrong and misleading information. The population growth rate in several other districts in India is much higher than Araria and Kishanganj, they claimed. According to the 2011 census, Kishanganj has a 67 per cent Muslim population, the highest in any

Population collapse due to low birth rates a bigger risk than climate: Musk

This is not the first time that Tesla's top boss has warned about declining birth rates. In June 2022, he also shared data from The Wall Street Journal

Canada's population may double to 74 mn by 2068, says national agency

The population aged 85 and older may more than triple over the same period, from 871,000 in 2021 to 3.2 million in 2068, Statistics Canada said

S Korea's population falls for 2nd year, single-person households increase

South Korea's population declined for the second consecutive year in 2021, while the number of single-person households continued to increase, government data revealed

1% of India's adult population likely to be millionaires by 2030: Report

According to HSBC Holdings Plc. report in Bloomberg, Singapore will take over Australia and have Asia's highest share of millionaires in the adult population by 2030

New Zealand population growth lowest since June 1986 despite 0.2% increase

New Zealand's resident population provisionally grew by 12,700 over the year to reach 5.12 million on June 30, the lowest annual growth rate since June 1986

Literacy rate for STs improved from 47.1% in 2001 to 59% in 2011: Census

The literacy rate for the total population increased from 64.8 per cent in 2001 to 73 per cent in 2011

Japan minister blames 'male-dominated' parliament for dwindling population

Japan's minister called the country's record low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed indifference and ignorance in the male-dominated Japanese parliament for the neglect

China's dwindling population to see negative growth before 2025: Report

The growth rate of China's total population has slowed significantly and is expected to enter a negative growth during the current 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25)

Urban woes and construction catastrophe

The logic of developing a city should be to foster ease of living for its people and not profits for its developers

Statsguru: India's massive population challenge explained in six charts

Life expectancy at birth reduced from 70.9 years in 2019 to 67.2 years in 2021

India to overtake China as the most populous country. What does this mean?

India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country sometime next year, according to a United Nations estimate. Should we be worried? What does this actually mean for the economy?

India's biggest challenge

The world's largest population will have too few jobs

Naqvi calls population explosion 'problem of country', not religion

BJP leader and former Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that "population explosion" is not the problem of a particular religion but an issue plaguing the entire country