{
  "id": 532073,
  "title": "Experts warn population policies lag behind demographic realities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/experts-warn-population-policies-lag-behind-demographic-realities",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-11T01:48:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn - Pakistan",
    "slug": "dawn-pakistan",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2021964/experts-warn-population-policies-lag-behind-demographic-realities"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan’s population having crossed 240 million and a median age of just 19, policymakers, health experts and researchers warned that the country’s demographic trajectory demands an urgent shift from short-term fixes to robust, evidence-based strategies. The stakeholders were speaking at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) seminar titled “Population Growth and…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}