The 1951 Convention and the 1969 OAU Convention provide clear refugee definitions. The fact that more than 140 countries have acceded to the 1951 Convention or its 1967 Protocol, and many of these ...

Population projections are always uncertain, but can be useful to help decisionmakers plan for the future. The sources of uncertainty that I'm wrestling with right now are questions like: How long ...

Jews are the smallest religious group analyzed separately in this report, accounting for 0.2% of the global population. Most Jews live either in North America (primarily in the United States) or in ...

How do we possibly understand India’s demography in pre-modern times? As we move further back into the past, the sources of information on population dwindle ...

Caste, and not class, will be taken into consideration during the exhaustive count of the population of the country that will be held in 2026-2027, sources said on Thursday. Each person will have to ...

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