India Set to Overtake China as World's Most Populous Nation, according to UN Data

India Population: According to figures made public by the UN on Wednesday, India will pass China in terms of population in the middle of this year, adding over 3 million more people. India's population is estimated to be 1.4286 billion, compared to China's 1.4257 billion, according to the UNFPA's "State of the World Population Report, 2023" demographic data.

India will surpass China this month

With a projected population of 340 million, the United States comes in a distant third. The data is based on knowledge as of February 2023, according to the paper. Using prior UN data, population analysts predicted that India will surpass China this month. But a timeframe for the change's implementation was not included in the most recent report from the international organisation.

China's population growth has been slower than India

owing to "uncertainty" regarding the statistics coming out of China and India, UN population experts have stated that it is impossible to identify a date. This is particularly true given that India's previous census was performed in 2011 and that the country's upcoming 2021 census has been delayed owing to the pandemic. Even though the two Asian superpowers will make up more than one-third of the projected world population of 8.045 billion, China's population growth has been slower than India's, and vice versa.

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Significant effects on China's economy and the rest of the globe

For the first time in six decades, China's population declined last year. This historic development is likely to signal the beginning of a protracted period of declining citizen numbers, which will have significant effects on China's economy and the rest of the globe. Government statistics show that India's population has grown by 1.2% annually on average since 2011 as opposed to 1.7% over the previous ten years.

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