The world celebrated a Population Day on July 11 to enlighten the immense need to limit human population so that the conditions of the earth’s environment and resources improve. The world population soared by a billion in merely thirteen years from four billion in 1974. Food scarcity, housing, health, hygiene, social and economic facilities are becoming a lot more challenging, particularly in developing countries. Its Human Development Index (HDI) demonstrates the standard of living conditions like income, education, food, health, life span of the population of a country is lower than 153 countries of the world. World Population Day emphasises health and the rights of the women and girl children.
