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The rapid acceleration of Pakistan’s population growth is severely compounding the nation’s resource scarcity and amplifying the formidable challenges posed by climate change. Despite Pakistan’s ...

In the complex mosaic of Pakistan’s developmental journey, the question of population control emerges as a central thread, weaving its way through the fabric of socioeconomic and political discourse.

The country’s fertility rate rose to 2.4 after decades of decline and stagnation, according to a government survey.

India has the largest population in the world today, at 1.46 billion people, and around a billion in working age of 15 to 64 years. India overtook China on both counts recently. While India’s ...

A ticking time bomb of population growth threatens Pakistan, joining the league of the world's top five most populous countries, with a staggering 225 million people and counting. The repercussions ...

Until five months ago, the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh had a law that barred people with more than two children from contesting elections in local rural and urban bodies. Now, the state ...

The controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill “is nothing but a population control measure cleverly disguised as a health measure," Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Tuesday. “I'm sorry ...

Alif Baqytali hugs his mother, Gulnar Omirzakh, at their new home in Shonzhy, Kazakhstan. Omirzakh, a Chinese-born ethnic Kazakh, says she was forced to get an intrauterine contraceptive device, and ...