What we are doing is sitting with fingers up our butts and complaining is mulk ka kuch nahin ho sakta. Biggest enemies of Pakistan are Pakistanis themselves.
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What we are doing is sitting with fingers up our butts and complaining is mulk ka kuch nahin ho sakta. Biggest enemies of Pakistan are Pakistanis themselves.
Now, this is one prediction about India that WILL likely come true!
India's population explosion: To surpass China's, be 10 times US' by 2050
United Nations
The Earth will be home to some 9.7 billion people in 2050 and by 2100 the number will increase to 11 billion. India's population will surpass China's by 2027, and despite being one-third the size of the US will hold a population 10 times higher than America, the UN has announced.
The UN in its biannual population report on Monday also warned about a growing aging population in Europe and North America, the Efe news reported.
The report though stressed that the population would grow at a slower pace than it had been forecast two years back.
The countries that will experience the greatest population growth, in descending order, are predicted to be India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the US.
In the updated document, "The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights" the international body has stressed that in the next 30 years the world's current population of 7.7 billion will grow by about 2 billion and the aging of the world's population will also spike "due to increasing life expectancy and falling fertility levels"
In its 2017 study on population growth, the UN had forecast that there would be 9.8 billion people on the planet in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100.
Along those lines, the report emphasises that in 2050 about 16 per cent of the world's population will be over 65 years of age, compared with 9 per cent at present. By regions, Europe and North America will have a much higher than average number of over-65 citizens: 25 per cent.
The UN warns that this aging trend -- in 2050 will be 426 million people over age 80, compared to 143 million now -- bringing with it a decline in the proportion of the working age population.
It will hence exert pressure on social security systems that rely on wage-earners to contribute part of their pay to such safety-net programs.
The algorithm used to forecast population growth also found that the number of countries experiencing a reduction in their populations is increasing.
The report notes that since 2010, a total of 27 countries or areas have experienced a decline of 1 per cent or more in the size of their populations due to lower fertility levels. With the fertility rate having fallen from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 in 2019, it is now predicted to go down to around 2.2 by 2050.
The UN calculates that, without migration, a level of 2.1 births per woman is necessary to merely ensure generational replacement of the population. Anything less than that leads to overall population decline and levels higher than that result in a growing population.
Between 2019 and 2050, the study estimates 55 of the world's present-day countries to experience the 1 per cent or greater decline in their population. In 26 of these countries the reduction could also touch 10 per cent.
The report also focusses on out-migration as a key component of population change in countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and The Philippines -- from where migrant workers are in demand.
Besides, sometimes out-migration could also be caused by violence, lack of security or wars -- as in Myanmar, Syria and Venezuela.
In contrast, the report says that between 2010 and 2020 about 10 countries -- including Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine -- will experience a net inflow of migrants, which will help compensate their population loss due to deaths that exceed births.
--IANS
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(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
India's population explosion: To surpass China's, be 10 times US' by 2050
United Nations
The Earth will be home to some 9.7 billion people in 2050 and by 2100 the number will increase to 11 billion. India's population will surpass China's by 2027, and despite being one-third the size of the US will hold a population 10 times higher than America, the UN has announced.
The UN in its biannual population report on Monday also warned about a growing aging population in Europe and North America, the Efe news reported.
The report though stressed that the population would grow at a slower pace than it had been forecast two years back.
The countries that will experience the greatest population growth, in descending order, are predicted to be India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the US.
In the updated document, "The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights" the international body has stressed that in the next 30 years the world's current population of 7.7 billion will grow by about 2 billion and the aging of the world's population will also spike "due to increasing life expectancy and falling fertility levels"
In its 2017 study on population growth, the UN had forecast that there would be 9.8 billion people on the planet in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100.
Along those lines, the report emphasises that in 2050 about 16 per cent of the world's population will be over 65 years of age, compared with 9 per cent at present. By regions, Europe and North America will have a much higher than average number of over-65 citizens: 25 per cent.
The UN warns that this aging trend -- in 2050 will be 426 million people over age 80, compared to 143 million now -- bringing with it a decline in the proportion of the working age population.
It will hence exert pressure on social security systems that rely on wage-earners to contribute part of their pay to such safety-net programs.
The algorithm used to forecast population growth also found that the number of countries experiencing a reduction in their populations is increasing.
The report notes that since 2010, a total of 27 countries or areas have experienced a decline of 1 per cent or more in the size of their populations due to lower fertility levels. With the fertility rate having fallen from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 in 2019, it is now predicted to go down to around 2.2 by 2050.
The UN calculates that, without migration, a level of 2.1 births per woman is necessary to merely ensure generational replacement of the population. Anything less than that leads to overall population decline and levels higher than that result in a growing population.
Between 2019 and 2050, the study estimates 55 of the world's present-day countries to experience the 1 per cent or greater decline in their population. In 26 of these countries the reduction could also touch 10 per cent.
The report also focusses on out-migration as a key component of population change in countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and The Philippines -- from where migrant workers are in demand.
Besides, sometimes out-migration could also be caused by violence, lack of security or wars -- as in Myanmar, Syria and Venezuela.
In contrast, the report says that between 2010 and 2020 about 10 countries -- including Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine -- will experience a net inflow of migrants, which will help compensate their population loss due to deaths that exceed births.
--IANS
rs
(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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The reason this is funny is because we are not bullying India or even saying anything bad about them.
We are simply pointing out stuff they themselves have said.
Its like a clown getting upset when people laugh at him.... if you don't want to be laughed at, then don't act like a clown.
We are simply pointing out stuff they themselves have said.
Its like a clown getting upset when people laugh at him.... if you don't want to be laughed at, then don't act like a clown.
India plans fastest supercomputer by 2017
The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines.
Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sharing the roadmap to develop "petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers" at an estimated cost of Rs 4,700 crore over 5 years.
"In his (Sibal) letter, he has said that C-DAC has developed a proposal with a roadmap to develop a petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers in the country with an outlay of Rs 4,700 crore," a government official said.
A petaflop is a measure of a computer s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Exaflop is one quintillion computer operations per second. Simply put, one exaflop is thousand times faster than one petaflop.
The fastest supercomputer in the world, Sequoia, has registered a top computing speed of 16.32 petaflops which is equivalent of computing of power from over 7.8 lakhs high-end laptops put together.
If the Indian government approves building exaflop supercomputers, these will be at least 61 times faster than Sequoia, officials said.
India's top supercomputer at present ranks 58th globally in terms of computing speed.
Sibal has cited the past record of Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) which was set up in 1987 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi after technologically advanced nations denied supply of supercomputer to India in mid-1980s.
"The Minister has written that C-DAC developed first supercomputers in the country, the PARAM series. Presently Param Yuva with 54 teraflop computing power is serving many researchers through Garuda Computing Grid," the official said.
Sibal has proposed that Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) should be given tasks to coordinate overall supercomputing activities in the country as it has been done in the past.
The proposal made in the letter says that DEITY should be given tasks to set up a National Apex Committee to oversee the implementation of the proposed Supercomputing Mission and C- DAC should establish peta and exascale supercomputing facilities and development activities.
India is only minutes away from becoming a superpower! Congratulations to our Indian members. Your dreams and aspirations have been realized! Hats off!
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