Senior politicians in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday called for measures to cut the birth rate in the region in order to bring the population explosion there under...
Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health minister has said, in a bid to help control its fast-growing population. Observers...
The CEO of the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation (GSMF) says there is a need for population to be considered when government is making long-term development plans. Alex Banful believes this will give...
It sounds like the plot of a mystery novel. A controversial one-child policy that resulted in as many as 60 million "missing girls" in China, the most populous country on Earth. But in a new study,...
Police in China have detained 75 people in connection with a widespread network that illegally determined the gender of unborn babies. The illegal service - aimed at expectant parents wanting male...
By 2022, India’s population will have overtaken China’s to become the largest in the world, according to a United Nations report. As the world’s two most populous nations, China and India...
