India to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by mid-2023, U.N. says

 

According to the United Nations on Wednesday, April 19, India is on its way to becoming the world’s most populous nation, surpassing China by almost three million people in the middle of this year.

The segment information from the Assembled Countries Populace Asset’s (UNFPA) “Territory of Total populace Report, 2023” gauges India’s populace at 1,428.6 million or 1.4286 billion against 1.4257 billion for China.

The United States of America is a distant third with an estimated 340 million people, according to the most recent data. The information reflects data accessible as of February 2023.

Even though it is anticipated that India will soon surpass China in terms of population, the most recent report from the global organization did not specify a date for when this would occur.

UN officials in charge of population said that no date could be set because of “uncertainty” regarding the data from India and China. This is especially true given that India’s most recent census was taken in 2011 and the next one, which was supposed to take place in 2021, has been postponed due to the pandemic.

Indeed, even as India and China will represent more than 33% of the assessed worldwide populace of 8.045 billion, the populace development in the two nations has been easing back, at a lot quicker pace in China than in India.

China’s population dropped for the first time in six decades last year. Meanwhile, government data indicate that India’s annual population growth has averaged 1.2% since 2011, up from 1.7% in the preceding ten years.

According to Reuters, UNFPA India Representative Andrea Wojnar stated that the findings of the Indian survey “suggest that population anxieties have seeped into large portions of the general public.”

However, population numbers should not cause concern or alarm. If individual rights and choices are to be upheld, they should instead be seen as a symbol of progress, development, and aspirations, she said.