Inclusive Growth
India's economic growth, celebrated in aggregate terms, hides an uncomfortable truth: much of this progress has bypassed the majority of the population, particularly in rural areas.
India's economic growth, celebrated in aggregate terms, hides an uncomfortable truth: much of this progress has bypassed the majority of the population, particularly in rural areas.
A UN peacekeeping base in Lebanon came under fire from Israeli forces but Indian peacekeepers there are reported safe.
Director General of the department Anoja Senevirathne told journalists in Colombo that census officials will be visiting households across the country to collect vital data.
With the exponentially growing elderly population worldwide, the number of people with dementia is also rising, warranting the need for more trained caregivers to support them. With changing demographics, one wonders if schools will one day get converted into elderly day-care centres.
In a bizarre move to address the country’s declining population, the Japanese government launched a new initiative to support single women moving out of Tokyo to rural areas to get married and thus fill the gap of a shrinking female population in the countryside.
According to historian Angus Maddison, India was the richest country and had the world’s largest economy until the 17th century.
America’s population trends have led to a socalled “racial generation gap” where the younger population is far more diverse than older age groups. In April 2021, the US Census Bureau released the first set of results from the 2020 decennial census, providing a snapshot of the American population for use in Congressional reapportionment and redistricting (comparable to the delimitation exercise in India). In recent weeks, however, the agency has released more detailed census information that presents a fuller picture of the population.
The population of Japanese nationals totaled 122,423,038 across the country in 2022, down by 801,000, marking the biggest drop and the first time all 47 of the country's prefectures have seen a decline, government data showed Wednesday.
As China's population is shrinking, Beijing is re-assessing the labour policies as shrunk labour is expansive labour, reported The HK Post.
Germany's population swelled to an all-time record number of at least 84.3 million inhabitants at the end of 2022, due to record net immigration, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said.
