Children's condition - Wither demographic dividend?
Business Standard - India
India and the international community have been talking about the demographic dividend that India should reap until mid-century. United Nations Population Division data indeed reveal that the share of the working age group of 15-64 years in total population will grow in South Asia until 2040, in some until 2045, and in Afghanistan until 2075. The challenge is to convert this population into productive citizens through nutrition and education. ,…(21 November 2011)

Sanjeev Sanyal: World population - Boom to bust?
Business Standard - India
Tomorrow is World Population Day and we are probably expected to spend it fretting over demographic growth. The United Nations Population Division recently forecast that world population will hit almost 7 billion this year, 9.3bn in 2050 and over 10 billion by the end of this century. It also forecasts that India will surpass China as the world’s most populous country before 2025 and that its population will peak at 1.72bn in 2060.…(10 July 2011)

Life Insurance New Business Premium up 14.5 % for FY11
Indiainfoline - India
Life Insurance, as a unique asset class, is expected to not only boom but also out-perform during this decade. It will in fact complement and support other asset segments including equity, spurred by favorable demographic profile, high house-hold savings and expected manifold growth in economy in the next 10 years.
(...) As per UN population division projections, India’s population by 2015 will constitute of 30% individuals under age 14 and a whopping 60% in the age group of 15 to 59 years indicating a potential high-growth prospect for the Indian Life Insurance industry,…(23 May 2011)

World population to cross 10 billion by 2100: UN
The Economic Times - India
"The future of the population depends very much on what will happen to the future of fertility in the world," Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division , Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told journalists. "Towards the end of the century, low-fertility countries will have a relatively aged population," she said. "The intermediate fertility countries get more or less to the same point". …(4 May 2011)

Population growth not in sync with natural resources, by K. Srinivasan, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
Economic Times - India
Based on the 2001 Census data and earlier trends in fertility and mortality rates, the Registrar General of India has projected the population of the country in 2011 to be around 1,193 million. The United Nations Population Division, which has consistently projected higher figures for India, has estimated it to be 1,230 million for the same year. The UN assumes that there has been a systematic undercount in our censuses which has to be corrected and hence it has given higher estimates. The 2011 Census to take place in the next few months will clarify whether we are closer to the UN or GoI projections.,…(30 January 2011)

Indicus Analytics: Baby steps on fertility
Business Standard - India
According to the United Nations Population Division’s projections, by one estimate of constant fertility rate, India’s population is set to exceed that of China in 2022; using a lower fertility assumption, this year is pushed ahead to 2029. ,…(16 December 2010)

Can India garner the demographic dividend?
The Hindu - India
The United Nations Population Division projections show that, while in absolute numbers the youth segment (15-34 years) of the Indian population tapers off after 2030, as a proportion to the total population it tapers off from 2010 itself.,…(1 December 2010)

In 100 years we’ll be a fully urban species
Deccan Chronicle - India
The population of the world’s countryside will stop growing around 2019, according to the UN Population Division’s more conservative estimates, and by 2050 will have fallen by 600 million because of migration to the city. India’s rural population, one of the last to stop growing, is set to peak in 2025 at 909 million, and shrink to 743 million by 2050...(16 August 2010)

For millions across the world, home is someplace else
The Times of India - India
The total number of international migrants is estimated to touch 214 million this year, that is, about three per cent of the world’s population, according to the UN Population Division. …(17 July 2010)

Fewer Indians adopted by rich world now
>The Times of India - India
Geopolitical changes have radically altered the preferences of prospective foster parents' in the developed world and the last 30 years have seen India move from second to the seventh most preferred country to supply children to the childless rich. These are some of the findings of an analysis of adoption trends across 195 countries by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Population Division. ,…(2 May 2010)

Looming population crisis as world turns its back on parenthood
The Times of India - India
Detailed country-wise data on fertility and ageing, released recently by the United Nations Population Division, shows a complex mosaic of child-bearing trends among people in different regions of the world and from different socio-economic strata of society. Also revealed is the rapidly evolving world of the elderly in our society, especially its feminisation.,…(3 April 2010)

'South Asia accounts for 32% of under-5 deaths'
Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
The IGME is formed by experts at UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, the UN Population Division (UNPD), and members of the academic community. ... (12 October 2009)

India still accounts for 21% of under-five deaths
Times of India - New Delhi,India
These new estimates calculated by Unicef, WHO, World Bank and United Nations Population Division pointed to another interesting fact that under-five ... (12 September 2009)

The twilight years
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
THERE will be two elderly persons for every child in the world by 2050, going by the projections of the UN Population Division . ...(17 August 2009)

Light at the end of the population tunnel: Why India's population will stabilise sooner than expected
Business Standard, Mumbai
the UN’s Population Division estimates that India’s population will be growing at 0.25 per cent per year even in 2050. In my view, these estimates do not fully reflect three powerful dynamics that are emerging.
,…(15 July 2009)

'Rapid population growth hinders Millennium Development Goals'
The Hindu - Chennai ‎
United Nations (PTI): "When individuals and couples are given the possibility of deciding how many children they want to have, they usually opt for much lower numbers than they used to," Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division, told the reporters. ... (2 April 2009)

World population will be 7 billion in 2012
Deccan Herald - India
The population of the 49 least developed countries (LDCs) is still the fastest growing in the world, at 2.3 per cent per year, the Population Division said. ... (12 March 2009)

World population will be 7 billion in 2012
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India
The population of the 49 least developed countries (LDCs) is still the fastest growing in the world, at 2.3 per cent per year, the Population Division said. ... (11 march 2009)

Economic meltdown sends large number of migrants home: UN
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
"News about migrants returning in significant numbers to their home countries have become more common, especially in cases where the economy of the host country sours," the UN population division said. ...…(21 November 2008)

Running out of food?
Times of India - India
According to the United Nations Population Division , the world population would be somewhere between 8 and 11 billion by 2050, depending upon what factors ... (11 May 2008)