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By Nidhi Jacob Social media platforms are rife with misleading claims suggesting that the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Committee's working paper states a 7.8% decline in the Hindu population and a 43% rise in the Muslim population between 1950 and 2015. Additionally, multiple posts on X have amplified this claim with communal undertones. BOOM found that the figures in the claims have been cherry-picked to exaggerate the growth of the Muslim population while overlooking the declining trend in growth and fertility rates among all religious groups in recent decades. (Archive link) (Archive ...
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By The Conversation Feng Wang , University of California, Irvine Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in the world – and until recently, by some margin. So news that the Chinese population is now in decline, and will sometime later this year be surpassed by that of India, is big news even if long predicted. As a scholar of Chinese demographics, I know that the figures released by Chinese government on Jan. 17, 2023, showing that for the first time in six decades, deaths in the previous year outnumbered births is no mere blip. While the previous ye...
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By The Conversation Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Surrey; Ida Kubiszewski, UCL; Paul Sutton, University of Denver, and Robert Costanza, UCL The world population has just hit a new record: 8 billion. As is often the case, there are heated debates about the planet's so-called "carrying capacity" – the total number of people who can live on Earth sustainably. Experts are generally divided into two camps. There are those who argue that we need to drastically reduce the human population to avoid ecological catastrophe. And then there are those who believe that technology will find smart solutio...
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By Kirti Rawat The United Nations has said the world's population has hit the 8 billion mark. Since 1800, the world's population has jumped eightfold. The UN has called the 8 billion mark as a "historic milestone for humanity".
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