India is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people by the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations on Wednesday showed. Based on the ...

Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been citing evidence that the United Nations world population projection group has been massively ...

India's population, more than 1.4 billion, has surpassed that of mainland China, new United Nations data released this week showed. By summer, it will have about 2.9 million more people than the ...

On New Year’s Day in 2021, nearly 60,000 babies were born across India—the highest number of births given anywhere in the world that day, according to UNICEF. The record-breaking number also ...

Indian women have been urged to have a minimum of two children in a bid to reverse plummeting birth rates and boost the population. N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is the chief minister of the Andhra ...

At that point, the world’s population will start to shrink, something it has not done since the 14th century, when the Black Death wiped out perhaps a fifth of humanity. Alarming as this might sound, ...