India's four largest so-called BIMARU states - Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh - have been showing a steep rise in population despite effective methods of birth control in primary heal

The state of Rajasthan is offering prizes including television sets, food processors and even a Tata Nano car for people who agree to undergo sterilisation, a doctor has revealed.

"We want to promote

To give a boost to population control efforts, the government is planning to deliver contraceptives on the doorstep in 266 districts, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said

China's population is ageing and flocking to cities, according to the latest national census results released on Thursday, showing the world's most populous country now counted 1.339 billion people.

As per the provisional figures trickling out from the Census 2011, for the first time in the last decade, females have outnumbered males in Goa which has recorded a 8.17 per cent growth in overall

India's population has touched 1.21 billion (121 crore), indicating a rise of 17.64 percent over the previous figure, according to preliminary results of the 15th Census released on Thursday.

The mal

India's population is now pegged at 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million in the last 10 years, according to the provisional 2011 census report released on Thursday.

The population of children (0-6 years) in the country has recorded a decline of about five million over the previous census, according to provisional results Census 2011 released here on Thursday.

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India's effective literacy rate has recorded a 9.2 percent rise to reach 74.04 per cent, according to provisional data of the 2011 census released on Thursday.

Effective literacy rate in the 2001 cen

The total population of Andhra Pradesh has been pegged at 8,46,65,533 comprising 4,25,09,881 males and 4,21,55,652 females, as per the Census of India-2011 report released on Thursday.

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