India is quietly undergoing a profound demographic and health transition: fertility rates are falling and the challenge of ...

NEW DELHI – India is set to remain the world’s most populous nation in 2025 with 1.46 billion people, but a sharp decline in fertility — now below the replacement level — signals a major demographic ...

For too long, India’s policy makers took comfort in the fact that the country’s large population of the youth gave it a ...

Earlier this year, China ceded its place as the world’s most populous country to India. The population of India is not projected to peak until 2064, when it will be home to 1.7 billion people. The ...

People throng a marketplace in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 24, 2023. The United Nations says India will be the world's most populous country this Spring, eclipsing an aging China. India's growth will ...

Telangana’s progress mirrors broader national trends but stands out for its sharp improvements in infant survival: Reports ...

Another significant element of India's population challenge is gender inequality, with Muttreja referring to this as "the feminization of aging." "Many older women, especially widows in rural areas, ...