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NFHS-5 Data Busts Right-Wing Myth of Indian Vegetarianism
May 29, 2022

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(Janata Weekly) Non-vegetarian food consumers have increased in India, including in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, as per data released by the recent National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5).

This is significant because right-wing supremacists have been peddling the fase narrative that non-vegetarians are a small minority in India. In fact, it is based on this false narrative that state administrations have attempted to remove eggs from mid-day meal plans, and non-veg food vendors from the streets. However, latest health data shows that more people are joining an already significant non-vegetarian population.

Groups across India were surveyed from 2019 to 2021 owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, compared to the 10-year gap between NFHS-3 and NFHS-4, the recent report was published only after a gap of five years.

More meat-lovers in Gujarat

As per the data, non-veg eaters in BJP-led Gujarat increased by at least seven percentage points over five years. As many as 39 percent of 33,343 surveyed women and 51 percent of 4,957 surveyed men confirmed eating fish or chicken or similar meat. These percentages are higher than the NFHS-4 data (2015-16) when 30.8 percent of 22,932 surveyed women and 43.5 percent of 5,567 surveyed men said they consumed non-veg.

Moreover, by 2019-21, 2.4 percent women (around 800 people) and 2.1 percent men (104 people) consumed such non-vegetarian food daily. Another 17.8 percent women (5,935 people) and 18.5 percent men (917 people) ate the food weekly, while 18.6 percent women (6,208 people) and 30.3 percent men (1,502 people) ate it occasionally.

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Number of Americans who believe in God dips to new low: Gallup
A large majority (81 percent) of Americans say they believe in God, based on the poll conducted May 2-22, but that number has dipped 6 points from a consistent 87 percent from 2013-2017.

Over 90 percent of Americans said they believed in God from 1944 to 2011, the number stabilizing at a high of 98 percent from 1944 through the 1960s.

About 17 percent of American adults told Gallup that they do not believe in God, while the remaining 2 percent said they were unsure.

The Gallup Values and Beliefs poll found that the decrease in theism has been driven by young adults and those on the political left. Both groups’ belief in God has dropped by 10 percent or more compared to the 2013-2017 average for their demographics.
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Liberals (62 percent), young adults (68 percent) and Democrats (72 percent) gave significantly lower rates of belief in God, while conservatives (94 percent) and Republicans (92 percent) gave the highest.
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China's population might be 130 million less than its government claims, and it might have peaked in 2018.
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India to surpass China as most populous country in 2023, U.N. report says
July 11, 2022

NEW DELHI, July 11 (Reuters) - India is set to surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year, a United Nations report said on Monday, warning that high fertility would challenge economic growth.

The world's population, estimated to reach 8 billion by Nov. 15 this year, could grow to 8.5 billion in 2030, and 10.4 billion in 2100, as the pace of mortality slows, said the report released on World Population Day.

India's population was 1.21 billion in 2011, according to the domestic census, which is conducted once a decade. The government had deferred the 2021 census due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The world's population was growing at its slowest pace since 1950, having fallen below 1% in 2020, UN estimates showed.

In 2021, the average fertility of the world’s population stood at 2.3 births per woman over a lifetime, having fallen from about 5 births in 1950. Global fertility is projected to decline further to 2.1 births per woman by 2050.
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UN projects world population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15
By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press
July 12, 2022, 1:32 AM

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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations estimated Monday that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year.

In a report released on World Population Day, the U.N. also said global population growth fell below 1% in 2020 for the first time since 1950.

According to the latest U.N. projections, the world’s population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and a peak of around 10.4 billion during the 2080s. It is forecast to remain at that level until 2100.

The report says more than half the projected increase in population up to 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.

The report, “World Population Prospects 2022,” puts the world's population at 7.942 billion now and forecasts it will reach 8 billion in mid-November
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^ Bad at the long term but not a pressing matter compared to other issues now.
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U.S. life expectancy down for second-straight year, fueled by covid-19
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Life expectancy in the United States fell in 2021 for the second year in a row, reflecting the merciless toll exacted by covid-19 on the nation’s health, according to a federal report released Wednesday. This is the biggest continuous decline in life expectancy at birth since the beginning of the Roaring Twenties. Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 1996, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, life expectancy dropped from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021.

The biggest decline was among Native Americans, whose life expectancy in 2021 plummeted to 65, the age of eligibility for Medicare; in a single year, Native Americans forfeited nearly two years of life. White people had the second-biggest drop, losing a full year of life expectancy, while Black people lost 0.7 years. “In 2021, things should have been far better,” said Noreen Goldman, a Princeton University demographer who has studied socioeconomic disparities in health for years and whose research focuses on the pandemic’s effect on life expectancy.

“There’s some countries whose life expectancy in ’21 was higher than pre-pandemic. They suffered in 2020, and by ’21, they had more than recovered. That’s not us.” The federal report highlights two key things, said Reed Tuckson, co-founder of the Black Coalition Against Covid. The first: that many of these deaths were unnecessary and preventable, Tuckson said. The second: The extraordinary efforts made by the Black community to overcome the excess burden of death that plagued it at the beginning of the pandemic so it could “save itself.”

“We had to come from so much further back,” said Tuckson, an internist and former D.C. commissioner of public health. “As disease has progressed through society the last couple of years, that gap has closed. Simultaneously, White America, particularly in red states, is not as compliant with guidance. Leadership was much less focused. And we’re probably seeing the results of that.”
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