Population: Your questions answered

Business Daily

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News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As India is poised to overtake China as the world's most populous country, we put questions from World Service listeners to the author of 8 Billion and Counting. Dr Jennifer Sciubba explains how the number of humans is growing in some countries, declining in others, how people are moving around the world and why that matters when it comes to money and work. She also discusses the issue of fertility and birth-rate, and it's close links to factors such as government support and childcare.

Presenter: Devina Gupta Producers: Helen Thomas and Carmel O'Grady

(Image: A mother and child. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	abnormal transactions.
0:03.0	Some kind of cyber attack on a bank.
0:05.1	Tens of millions of dollars.
0:07.0	Something I don't think anybody has seen before.
0:09.1	It's a cyber criminal group.
0:10.7	From the BBC World Service.
0:12.5	The Lazarus Heist is back for season two.
0:14.7	It was really like in the movies.
0:16.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:21.1	Hello and namaste.
0:22.9	You're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service.
0:26.5	I'm Devina Gupta and throughout this week, we've brought you a special series on global
0:32.5	population.
0:34.6	When I give birth to my children, I have to work immediately because if I don't work, I don't have money.
0:43.2	It's a problem of all women that work like me.
0:48.5	There's this thing about Nigeria that just puts you in a box.
0:51.8	And so I wanted to get out there. I wanted my kids especially to
0:56.9	understand that life can actually be different. If you look at India's total fertility rate,
1:04.0	even in the early 90s, an Indian was on an average having more than three children. And in the
1:10.4	decade before that was even higher. At that stage, you know average having more than three children. And in the decade before that was even higher.
1:12.5	At that stage, you know, having more number of children,
1:15.6	especially in the rural parts of the country,
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