In the last two decades, the average economic growth rate of India has been decent but the country has not been unable to create enough new employment opportunities for the growing number of youth.

On World Population Day, it is important to underline that continuous update of population register data can produce ‘gold standard demographic data’, leading to improvement in socio-economic indicators.

The Government must prepare a blueprint and the Prime Minister must create a national consensus and implement it. We need to bring our total fertility rate further down from 2.1 to 1 or even lower, writes Congress MP Manish Tewari.

An estimated 392,078 babies were born around the world on New Year’s Day, according to UNICEF. Of this, an estimated 67,385 babies were born in India, the most globally. China comes in second with 46,299 births.

'We must be proud of our whole ecological system,' Javadekar said during the Question Hour in the Upper House.

In his Independence Day address on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concern over "population explosion", stating that it leads to many difficulties. He also said that keeping one's families small is an act of patriotism.

During his speech at the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said,'population explosion will cause many problems for our future generations. But there is a vigilant section of public which stops to think, before bringing a child to the world, whether they can do justice to the child, give them all that she or he wants'.

Giriraj Singh pointed out that even Islamic countries are trying for population control. But in India, measures to control population are being linked to the religion, he said.

Using an entertaining and engaging format with catchy lyrics, the condom rap is being released through multiple channels under the campaign #CondomBole.

Meanwhile, the Chinese population will decrease by 31.4 million, or around 2.2 per cent, between 2019 and 2050.

Addressing a press conference in Haridwar, Ramdev said the country's population should not be allowed to go beyond 150 crores.

"Individuals who are yet to be married, like myself, should get special recognition," said Ramdev at Gyan Kumbh inauguration.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics projects that the population is growing by one person every 83 seconds and is due to reach the milestone figure at 1300 GMT.

Singh's statements have often put the state's ruling BJP in an embarrassing spot

"Muslims were giving birth to 12-14 children....While Hindus restrict the number to one or two."

The demand was made by BJP member Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma as he moved a private resolution seeking implementation of a stringent population control policy to check the population explosion.