Mithilesh Chaudhary, 21, coughs weakly as he struggles to his feet after spending the night outside the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. “We have been sleeping on the footpath for two nights,” said his grandfather Bhim
Russia is in the midst of a historic population decline as it continues to grapple with low birth rates, high emigration, staggering health statistics and a deadly war in Ukraine. The growing crisis has been described by some as a “silent war”
Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. For 16 years, she had been a social worker in Mumbai, India’s frenetic financial capital, and she loved the work. But her family kept telling her she needed to stay at home
It was a celebratory atmosphere for officials gathered just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Sunday to much applause that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown
Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy’s death of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent
The death rate in China’s capital Beijing surpassed its birth rate in 2022, official data showed on Tuesday, pushing its natural population growth into negative territory for the first time since 2003. The death rate in the city of 21.84 million, one
Criminal activity has been waning for decades in Britain. However, with more police on the streets and tougher laws at their disposal, more and more offenders are expected to be sent to prison in the future. With the capacity of facilities already
A startling new report may be putting a lot of people on notice. Without significant action to change this trajectory, more than half the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035, according to a new report. The World Obesity Federation’s
The impending collapse of China’s population creates a “closing window of opportunity” that could spur President Xi Jinping to be “more provocative, more belligerent,” a China expert said. “Xi must be in a panic. His primary form of diplomacy is to intimidate others,”
Russia is set for a “10 percent decline in births” this calendar year as tens of thousands of young men die in Ukraine, experts have warned. United Nations population projections updated last year show Russia’s population is already long past its peak