The Philippines welcomed one of the world's symbolic 'seven billionth' babies on Monday, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at a packed government-run hospital.

Weighing 2.5 kilos (5.5 pounds),

The world's population touched another milestone today as India and the Philippines welcomed 'symbolic' seventh-billionth babies.

A baby girl, born to 23-year-old Vinita and Ajay at a local communit

Mumbai is India's most populated city with over 1.84 crore (18.4 million) people, followed closely by Delhi with 1.63 crore (16.3 million) and Kolkata with 1.41 crore (14.1 million), making these Indi

The world's 7 billionth person will be born into a population more aware than ever of the challenges of sustaining life on a crowded planet but no closer to a consensus about what to do about it.

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When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband

China's one-child policy has prevented almost half a billion births but has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages, storing up huge economic and social problems for the country.

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Policy not relevant in Kerala: Expert

“The two-child norm proposed by justice V.R. Krishna Iyer is irrelevant in Kerala,” said Dr Irudaya Rajan, one of the state’s biggest authorities on population s

Simple marble gravestones lie flat in the grounds of St Andrew's Church in Bandra, one of the oldest Roman Catholic places of worship in Mumbai.

The names on the tombs bear witness to the city's Port

The world's population will hit seven billion by the end of October with five babies being born every second , experts have predicted.

A little over a decade ago, the world's population stood at six

The total population of India is 121 crore with 83.3 crore living in rural areas and 37.7 crore in urban areas, according to the Census of India’s 2011 Provisional Population Totals of Rural-Urban Dis