Yet 1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water. Water scarcity will be exacerbated if the human population keeps growing unsustainably. Watch Mission Sustainability - Population vs Planet - Running Dry: Population and Water Crisis.

Water is needed for life to exist

In what can be called a major error, China seems to have undercounted the number of children born from 2000 to 2010 by at least 11.6 million. The error seems to have happened partly due to its stringent one-child policy.

Major error? China undercounts nearly 12 million kids in 2010 census

Since 1978, China’s birth rate has plunged to its lowest levels, according to the latest data released by the country’s national bureau of statistics. According to the report, only 8.

China’s birth rate plunges to lowest level since 1978: Report

China has inoculated 76.3 per cent of its population with the Covid-19 vaccine as a total of 1.076 billion people in the country have received the required number of doses, the NHC spokesperson informed in a news briefing.

China has vaccinated over 75% of its population amid a surge in cases

Mission Sustainability: Population vs Planet Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India.

Mission Sustainability: Population vs Planet

Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India. Watch how Project Aakar is working towards population stabilization in the state.

Mission Sustainability: Population vs Planet | Education and Empowerment

Isolated populations of India have a higher genetic risk for COVID-19, reveals a study. A study led by experts at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Hyderabad, and the Varanasi-based Banaras Hindu University (BHU) involve examples of the tribes such as Onge and Jarawa.

Isolated populations of India more likely to contract COVID-19: Study

A new study has warned that China's population could halve within the next 45 years. The projection was based on the official birth rate of 1.3 children per woman last year.

China’s population could halve within the next 45 years: Study

Gender inequality continues to be a fundamental impediment to human progress. Girls and women have made significant progress, but gender equality has yet to be achieved.

Tongue in cheek: UN gives list with a twist for top 10 countries that achieved gender equality

Being called a 'beacon of hope' for countries struggling with coronavirus, Bhutan, tiny Himalayan kingdom, has fully vaccinated 90% of its eligible adult population with COVID-19 vaccine shots in a week, said UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday.

Bhutan vaccinates 90% adult population, becomes a beacon of hope  

The world population is expected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050. Global electricity demand is growing faster than renewables. How can this energy crisis be tackled? Watch 'Mission Sustainability: Population VS Planet'

Mission Sustainability: Population Vs Planet | Global electricity demand is growing faster than renewables

Every year on July 11, World Population Day is observed to draw attention towards the issues which are the resultant of a rising population across the globe. India has the world’s second-largest populace after China.

On World Population Day, UNFPA calls for prioritising reproductive health

Demographic issues have become important in recent years, especially on the front of sustainability. The Corona pandemic has also shown the risk that are associated with overgrowing population across the continents as more resources are needed now to fight the pandemic and for the betterment of our planet. Pradip Burman, Chairman, The Mobius Foundation discusses these pressing issues.

Pradip Burman talks to WION on overgrowing population across continents

The rapidly growing population is affecting biodiversity. Humans are driving other species to extinction. How can the world tackle the biodiversity crisis? Watch 'Mission Sustainability - Population vs Planet'.

Biodiversity loss threatens Human well-being

Mizoram Sports Minister Robert Romawia Royte has proposed a cash award of Rs 100000 for the living parent in his Assembly constituency with the most children. He stated that he has made the decision to stimulate population increase among the Mizo communities, which are demographically small.

Parent with highest number of children to get Rs 100,000 cash: Mizoram minister

Singapore's population rose by about 1.1% each year over the past decade, the slowest rate since independence in 1965, the latest census showed on Wednesday, with locals having fewer children and immigration policies tightening.

Singapore records slowest decade of population growth since independence

Our planet’s biodiversity is under threat and ironically, we humans are the main offenders - the same species that depend the most on it, is behind the destruction.

Overpopulation and human greed, the two enemies of biodiversity

Mission Sustainability: Population vs Planet- Project Aakar and stabilising India's population.

Mission Sustainability: Population vs Planet | India's population: 1.38 billion and counting

She was already beyond child-bearing age, but Qelbinur Sedik says Chinese authorities still forcibly sterilised her, part of what she describes as a systematic campaign to suppress births of Uyghurs and other minorities in the tense Xinjiang region.

Forced sterilisation and Xinjiang's shrinking population 

According to China's 2020 Census report, its population grew at the slowest rate in the last decade. Beijing says that its population stood at 1.412 billion in 2020. China's slowing rate of population growth has already raised concerns about a looming demographic crisis.

China's 2020 census shows slowest population growth in last decade

China's population growth in the decade to 2020 slumped to the least in official records dating back to the 1950s, fuelling pressure on Beijing to ramp up incentives to couples to have more children and avert an irreversible decline.

China 2020 census shows population growth slipped to lowest since 1950s

Nokdo is emblematic of a demographic crisis: Asia's fourth-largest economy saw its population drop for the first time last year as it became the world's fastest-ageing society with the lowest birth rate anywhere in 2020, according to the World Bank.

Fewer babies, ageing population- South korea faces demographic crisis

A small family is a happy family. A society with happy families is a sustainable society. Population and poverty have a correlation, as overpopulated societies would find it difficult to share available natural resources, food, education, and health care, among other things.

Mobius’s current project Aakar: Involving couples in the path towards stabilising population

South Korea faces a decline in population for the first time, it was in 2017 when it had become an ageing society. Happened for the first time in 1960, when the number of newborns was less in South Korean history.

South Korea : Number of newborns down by 10%

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