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Bangladesh along with Pakistan is projected to join the world's 10 most populous countries in terms of people aged 65 or above by 2060 as Asia is ageing fast due to rapid declines in fertility and mortality rates, says a report released for the USA. With 11.2 million older people, Bangladesh ranked 12th in the world in 2020.
The health ministry's argument against the WHO figures was wrong by a long margin and by its own findings in a national report released earlier this year.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya released the National Report of the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) in the presence of Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat and Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, at the 'Swasthya Chintan Shivir' being held at Vadodara, Gujarat
A recent Global Youth Tobacco Survey-4 (GYTS) for Uttar Pradesh has found that children are just around nine-and-a-half years of age when they initiate cigarette smoking.Children even younger than that -- about seven-year-old girls and ...
World No Tobacco Day 2022: The survey found that children even younger than that -- about seven-year-old girls and eight-year-old boys -- initiate smoking bidi.