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No need for concern about job losses as unemployment rate will fall below 3% in future: Labour Minister
The current unemployment rate of 3.2 per cent has come down from 6 per cent in the 2017-18 period.
PTI
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Doctor-population ratio in India better than WHO standard, says Govt
Under the Central Sector Scheme for setting up of new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved and underg…
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India's population reaches 144 crore, to double in 77 years: UNFPA report
India's population is estimated to have reached 144 crore, with 24 per cent in the 0-14 age bracket…
PTI
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China's working population will shrink in the coming decades and keep the nation's economy from surpassing America's, research firm says
One study says that, by the 2050s, China could be losing an average of 12 million working-age adult…
Phil Rosen
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BMI is a junk health metric — but there are alternatives that actually work
A 15-minute DEXA scan does a better job of assessing health than BMI, which doesn't separate muscle…
Hilary Brueck
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World Population Day: Population growth and sustainable development—turning the risk into opportunity in India
With over 36 crore people aged between 10 and 24, according to the 2011 Census, India has the world…
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Black Americans are more likely to be working than white Americans for the first time on record
In March, the Black employment-population ratio stood higher than for white Americans for the first…
Jason Lalljee,Madison Hoff
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China's millennials are shunning marriage at alarming rates, and it's creating a nationwide population crisis that Beijing can't magically fix
A 2021 survey found that 43.5% of unmarried women respondents were hesitant to get married because …
Matthew Loh
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It's not just Joe Biden. Plenty of Americans are now working into their 80s.
Many older Americans are entering a "working retirement," which is fulfilling for some, but financi…
Jason Lalljee,Madison Hoff,Andy Kiersz
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About 600 million people in India are at a higher risk of catching coronavirus infection due to other medical conditions
They are at higher risk because of their health conditions which can include cardiovascular dise…
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More Americans gave up on working in June, and it shows that not everyone is finding the job they want
The country's economic recovery is still booming along, but more Americans are opting out of lookin…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff,Alex Ford
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The number of employable Indian women has sharply risen in the last two years— and it is nearly at par with men
Women in India are just as good as men to get jobs but important sectors like automobiles, pharmace…
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Women are the majority in education, yet still find themselves overlooked for promotions and making less than their male peers
"I think my principal has his boys club of male teachers," Judy, a public middle-school teacher in …
Katherine Hekker
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Welcome to the new labor market, where everyone still quits all the time and some people will just never come back to work
It's a new era: millions of people are happy to quit each month, and the labor-force participation …
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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Just over half of Americans have a job right now
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reports that just 52.8% of the population that can work actua…
Allana Akhtar
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Delta variant cases have spiked in the UK, but deaths have not - a sign vaccines are working
Earlier surges have brought an increase in the ratio of COVID-19 deaths to cases. That hasn't happe…
Andy Kiersz,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A key labor-market ratio has tumbled near record lows — and Deutsche Bank's top economist says the US has to create a whopping 30 million jobs to reach a new all-time high
"To get the employment-to-population ratio back to where it was at its peak in 2000 we need to crea…
Carmen Reinicke
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Japan's population is falling faster than it ever has before
The number of births in Japan fell 2.9% from the previous year to 981,202 today, the lowest since c…
Chris Weller,Reuters
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Japan's population crisis just hit a 67-year low
Japan's fertility rate is among the lowest in the world, at just 1.4 births per woman. Sociologists…
Chris Weller
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China's rapidly ageing population is an economic ticking timebomb
Finally, there is a risk that ageing populations hold emerging markets back from achieving full pot…