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Population : Background & Perspective
The world has a population of 6 billion. India alone has a population of 1 billion. Despite the fact that India was the first country in the world to have a population poli...
Analysis
53 million-plus cities vs 355 million-plus districts
As long as the fixation with high economic growth rates continues, the focus in India will be on urban growth, at the expense of rural resilience, writes Rahul Goswami in this analysis of important data on rural India thrown up by Census 2011
Features
Delhi's skewed sex ratio: "24,000 girls go missing every year"
Delhi's sex ratio has become more and more skewed over the years. One study of families which already have one or more daughters shows just 219 girls being born for every 1,000 boys
Books & Reports
80% of world population will soon be in urban areas
Are nations prepared for this demographic transition, asks UNFPA's State of the World Population 2007 report
