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Compelled to cut down on essential items and dip into their depleting savings, India’s elderly population is facing increasingly abrasive inflation as it becomes a battle for survival.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said on Saturday that he will gradually turn around the difficult situation faced by the population and ensure that people can feed themselves three times a day.

Nine out of 10 Ukrainians could be plunged into poverty if the war drags on over the next year, wiping out two decades of economic gains, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) said on Wednesday (March 16).

About 30 per cent of the Thai population — or over 20 million people — are suffering from obesity, and the problem is worsening in children and teenagers, an expert warned on Thursday.

Hundreds of wild macaques in Phetchaburi province have been sterilised in a bid to curb the expanding population and prevent possible spread of diseases to locals.

Seoul is likely to see its population, sink below 9.5 million during the first half of 2022. This suggests that government policies to promote marriages and births have lacked efficacy.

Some 97.8% of the adult population in the country, or 22,893,234 individuals, have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.

Up to 35 percent of Myanmar’s population completed COVID-19 vaccination and more doses of COVID-19 are needed to buy at the end of this year to reach 50 percent of COVID-19 coverage in Myanmar’s population according to a 13th coordination meeting on COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment  committee held at the Bayint Naung hall in Nay Pyi Taw.

Afghanistan is on the brink of a starvation crisis, with more than half its population - some 22.8 million people - projected to face acute food insecurity this winter, according to a study co-led by the United Nations World Food Program and its Food and Agriculture Organization.

About nine months after the arrival of covid-19 shots, dozens of countries have yet to vaccinate 10% of their populations, a milestone seen as crucial in narrowing a glaring gap in access.

For years, the Netherlands has held the world title for having the tallest people on the planet. But new data from the office for national statistics suggests that the height of the average Dutch person is shrinking. And scientists are puzzled as to why.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expanded a state of emergency to eight more areas and cover more than 70% of the population as a delta-variant fueled surge sends Covid-19 cases to records and puts strains on the medical system.