Tag: Population

The Population Census Organisation (PCO) is in the process of finalising the provincial house census data, after which the second phase of population census...

At least 100 officers have been illegally appointed in the Population Welfare Department in two districts of Karachi division, with the son of the...

KARACHI - Expressing displeasure over the Population Department secretary's statement that show-cause notices were issued to 13 officers suspected of embezzling Rs 4.587 million from the department funds, the Sindh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday recommended that the provincial government should at least suspend these officers. The financial irregularities were noticed during the audit of Population Department accounts for the year 2007-8.
It was observed that

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is among 17 countries that are currently facing water shortage, with an estimated 44% of the population without access to safe drinking water and up to 90% of the population even lacks such access in rural areas. With decrease of quantity, the quality of water is also deteriorating badly by municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes. As one indication of the intensity of the intensity of the problem, it is estimated that about 200,000 children in Pakistan die

MOSCOW - Russia's population declined by nearly 3.4 million over the past decade, a census showed on Monday, offering more evidence that Russian economic growth will lag behind that of rival emerging powers China and India. The Kremlin has tried to boost population growth, fearing that fewer births in an ageing population will sap the economy, especially with a pension age of 55. The demographic black hole is expected to take 1 million workers out of the economy every year until 2017.

LAHORE - Nearly one third of the global population or around two billion people are affected by tuberculosis (TB), Punjab TB Control Programme Manager Dr Darakhshan Badar said on Thursday.
She was addressing a seminar titled, "TB Elimination: Together We Can!" organised in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Society and the Punjab TB Control Programme at the University of Animal and Veterinary Sciences (UVAS). Badar said that TB was a contagious disease and spread through the

STAFF REPORT - A control room has been established in the district coordination officer (DCO) Karachi's camp office for providing information regarding the sixth Population and Housing Census to be conducted by the Pakistan government in coordination with the inter-provincial CCI, according to a press release issued on Tuesday by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK).
DCOs had been appointed as Census District Coordinators via a federal government notification, to work as

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With an annual growth rate of more than two percent, the population of Pakistan has jumped to 184 million in 2010 from 119 million in 1990.
Presently, Pakistan contributes more than two and half percent of world's population and its population growth rate has mostly remained above the world's population growth rate.
Even while Pakistan's population growth rate has started declining since the decade of 90's, its contribution towards world's population increased