Sir – In my letter of October 2 on the world’s predicted population, I should have noted that the 12.3bn prediction comes from a paper by Professors Adrian Raftery and Patrick Gerland, published ...

Officials may have over-estimated the SAR's population growth by 650,000 in projections for 2029, raising questions over the projections' validity for long-term public planning. One academic warned ...

A population prediction model has projected the elephant population in Tamil Nadu to cross the 3,500-mark in 2022 and further increase steadily, after having declined steeply in 2017 when the last ...