Despite a dramatic widening in total population, India will not yet rival China’s appetite for natural resources by ...

India may have overtaken China in total population, but UN data also shows that its growth rate has slowed. Between 1971 and 1981, India’s population was growing on average 2.2% each year.

Population growth has long been a source of worry in India, which now has more people than China: 1.486 billion residents. But some experts are optimistic about the impact of this population boom.

In just a decade, India's population has grown by over 135 million. In 2015, the population was approximately 1.32 billion, with a fertility rate of 2.29, and just over 32 percent of the ...

India has long been a byword for overpopulation, but this is about to change. According to a new national survey, India’s total fertility rate, the average number of children a woman will bear ...

India's doctor-to-patient ratio hit a record high of 1.2 doctors per 1,000 patients in 1991, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), but as its population surged, the ratio dropped to ...

India will conduct its much-delayed population census in two phases to conclude by March 1, 2027, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, after a delay of six years caused by hurdles created by ...

In 1951, the population of Muslims in India was 3 crore 54 lakh, which has increased to 17.20 crore in 2011. A jump of 386 percent was recorded in the population of Muslims during this period.

BENGALURU, India — India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they have enough prey, reducing human-wildlife ...