Reports

The World Population Prospects 2019’ published by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country by 2027 and surpass china, published by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and remain most populous till the end of century. Population to increase by 2 bn more by 2050.

By 2050, 1 in every 6 people will be above age of 65 yrs (16% from 11% in 2019) due to incresed life expentency and decreased fertility. Europe and North america will have most.

Many countries will see population decrese by 1% due to high infertility rate and emigration. Life expentancy continue to b low in poor county and males will continue to outnumber the females till end of century.

World Best Universities Ranking - QS World University Rankings. MIT topped for 8th consecutive year. IIT-B topped from india. majority being Govt run College/Universities out of 23 (only 5 Pvt org) under 1000 university.

International trade center (WTO+UN in 1964) report the same competitiveness outlook 2019 : big money for small business.

enhancing access to SME's - SDG-9.3 N SDG-8.3

WHO 2018 GLOBAL TB REPORT - nearly half of the world's MDR-TB (24%) are in India. SDG 2030 to end TB.

RBI released 19th FINANCIAL STABILITY REPORT which mentions indian financial system remains stable in backdrop of improving banking sector

ILO in its report ‘Working on a Warmer Planet: The Impact of Heat Stress (above 35 dregree) on Labour Productivity and Decent Work’ revealed that rising heat stress due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030 based on 1.5 degree warming of planet. As per WHO heatwave wl cause 38k extra dealth worldwide between 2030 - 50. https://www.drishtiias.com/images/uploads/876image2.webp. Affected Sectors - Agri, Construction (most affected) and environment goods and services. Around 2% of total working hour loss (2.4 Trillion). Most affected region are "South asia n Western Africa = (5 working hours)" will increase more inequality btwn developed n developing nation.

Global Innovation index - by WIPO, INSEED n Confederation of Indian industry. First tym being launched in emerging country.anually it is published by WIPO, INSEED n Cornell University. India has been consistently improving with 52nd spot from 57 In 2018.

As per report of Journal nature, proper diet containing amino acid with chemotherapy can reduce cancer tumor.

India’s Ecommerce Market as per Morgan Stanley report – 2019, India is adding 1 Internet user every 3 Seconds.

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Global Liveability Index - By The Economic Intelligence Unit considered 140 cities for rankings. Consider 5 parameter- healthcare , education, stability, infrastructure and Culture n environment

World Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2019, released by the World Economic Forum ranked India 36th from 40th in 2018 publishes biannually

Rule of law report by World justice project n got 68th rank

Child’s Well-Being Index Report - kerla,Tamil Nadu,HP topped. MP worst by IFMR LEAD & an NGO World Vision India.

World bank report - "quality unknown - the invisible water crisis" mentions that heavily polluted river can reduce economic growth upto a third in some countries.

SARAL - State rooftop solar attractiveness index by min of new n renewable energy reports Karnataka topping the list. Govt aims to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022 of which 100 GW is from solar power.

Ease of doing business - by world bank. India moved to 63rd position from 77th in 2018. Have improved in starting a business, construction permit, Resolving insolvency n trading across border.

Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report, India (ranked at 5th position) 

Min of rural development released  5th edition of wasteland atlas 2019

National health profile 14th edition by Central Beauro of health intelligence (under director general of health services,1961) . Started since 2005.

Global wealth report - by Credit Suisse. India's household wealth increased by 5.2% in dollars.

India's household wealth grew fastest in the world & accounts 2% of World's millionaire. Globally 0.9% people hold 44% of wealth.

Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 (GCI 4.0) - WEF (10 points drop from 48 to 58. Negative turn in 8 out of 12 points)

Germanwatch (independent international environment think tank) report - Global climate risk index 2020 - India on 5th position on index n most affected are Japan, phillipines and Germany.

data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India topped the list of arms importer accounting for 13% of the trade in weapons platform between 2012-2018.

UNEP Emissions Gap Report - India is 4th largest emmitter of GHG in the world after China, US, EU respectively.

If world wants to keep the emmision level as per UNEP 2degree celcius then annual decrease of 7% should be achieved between 2020 to 2030.

World press freedom index by Reporters without borders ranked India 140 out of 180 countries.

Geochemical baseline atlas prepared by CSIR-NGRI (national geophysical research institute founded in 1961) to study toxic  chemical in soil, asses companies contribution in soil toxicity n soil toxicity contaminating ground water.