Chinese web users overtaken US users, hits 338 million

October 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Pronab Sen, chief statistician and secretary in the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, Friday stressed the need to review the present population policy keeping in view the recent fall in population growth. "Population growth has come down to 1.63 percent from more than 2 percent.

October 8th, 2009 Report: Global Muslim population hits 1.57 billionThe global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report Wednesday billed as the most comprehensive of its kind. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report provides a precise number for a population whose size has long has been subject to guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.

September 30th, 2009 A glance at moose populations in selected statesHere's a look at some significant moose populations in the U.S. according to officials from wildlife agencies in those states.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - Condoms are the cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions, claims a controversial new report. According to the report for the UK's Optimum Population Trust, putting the brake on global population growth would be five times cheaper than any other method of tackling the world's greenhouse gases.

July 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Internet is growing in dimensions every second, so much so that there are more addresses than there are people on Earth, claims the team behind Microsoft's new search engine Bing. Bing has put the number of web pages at "over 1 trillion", while Google had earlier indexed more than one trillion discreet web addresses.

June 16th, 2009 BEIJING - A social researcher in China has revealed that at the end of 2008, China's urban population had surged to 607 million with an urbanization rate of 45.7 percent. According to Shan Jingjing of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the urban population in the country has increased by 148 million since 2000, which is almost level with the rural population in the most populous nation in the world.

May 22nd, 2009 RANCHI - According to the latest census, there has been an increase in the elephant population in Jharkhand's Dalma sanctuary, officials said Friday. 'The rise of population of elephants in Dalma sanctuary is due to arrival of calves instead of migrant elephants,' said an official of the forest department.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Lok Sabha polls from the most-populated Uttar Pradesh, says he wants to control India's population by a 'softer approach' than the one adopted by his father more than three decades ago. Varun Gandhi told the Daily Telegraph that population control methods used by the Congress government in the mid-1970s were 'roughshod' and considered by many to be 'too forceful'.

May 5th, 2009 Number of children in Japan slides to new lowTOKYO — Japan, which designates every May 5 as Children's Day, has fewer children to celebrate the holiday for the 28th straight year, underscoring a demographic dilemma that could eventually wreak havoc on the world's second-largest economy. A government report released this week said the number of children under age 15 as of April 1 had fallen to about 17 million.

April 22nd, 2009 Report says China facing looming aging crisisBEIJING — China's rapidly aging population threatens the country's social and economic stability and could affect the prospects of other countries around the world, a U.S. study says. The current ratio of 16 elderly people per 100 workers is set to double by 2025, then double again to 61 by 2050, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

April 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - There are an estimated 11.9 million illegal immigrants in the US constituting four percent of the population, according to a study released Tuesday. The study by the independent Pew Research Center, which is based on the data collected by the US Census Bureau till March 2008, says their children, both unauthorized immigrants themselves and those born in the US, make up about 6.8 percent of the total enrolment in elementary and secondary schools.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - Britain is set to become the most populus country in the European Union (EU) by 2050, fuelled by nearly 200,000 new migrants every year, the global organisation has said. Britain's population was predicted to rise from 61.6 million this year to 72.4 million by 2050, overtaking the current highest Germany which was expected to fall to 70.5 million and France with 67.7 million, IRNA reported Thursday quoting UN estimates.

March 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - The world population is expected to reach seven billion by 2012, from the current 6.8 billion, with the additional population increase coming mostly in developing countries, the UN said Wednesday. By 2050, the world population is projected to reach over nine billion people based on an annual average gain of 78 million people.

February 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The 1.5 million Indian Americans in the US continue to top the US Census charts as the best-educated, highest-paid and top-placed community among the 38.1 million foreign-born population in the country. As per a fresh analysis of data on the foreign-born population from the 2007 American Community Survey, 74 percent of Indian-born US residents had bachelor's degree or higher, which was far more than the figure for people born in any other foreign country.

December 23rd, 2008 HANOVER - The world's population on New Year's Day is set to reach 6.75 billion, a German group that encourages birth control said Tuesday. The World Population Foundation of Germany said the planet's human population rose by 82 million this year and according to its estimates, the world population on Jan 1 would reach 6,751,643,600.