The following is an excerpt from the latest DRI Trendlines “Demography’s Long Shadow: Population and Prosperity in China, India, Japan.” Access the full report here. This chapter looks at how the ...

India is set to join many other countries around the world that are heading toward a population challenge by 2050. Newsweek has broken down what the issues are for India and what can be done about it.

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 ...

Counting millions of people is never an easy task, but according to the United Nations, India now has more people than China, an epochal shift in global demographics that happened sometime in late ...

CHINA HAS been the world’s most populous country for hundreds of years. In 1750 it had an estimated 225m people, more than a quarter of the world’s total. India, not then a politically unified country ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...