India
to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in the world.
India is also expected to add 273 million people by 2050.
It remains the most populated until the end of the century.
India has an estimated population of 1.37 billion and China 1.43 billion and by
2027.
India’s population is projected to surpass China’s.
The global population is to increase by another 2 billion people by 2050, from
7.7 billion in 2019 to 9.7 billion thirty years
According to ‘The World Population Prospects 2019’ published by the Population
Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
There are 55 countries are estimated to see their populations shrink by at
least one per cent.
From 2010,27 countries recorded a minimum one per cent reduction in population.
This trend of a growing number of countries experiencing a decline in
population attributed to sustained low levels of fertility.
In China, the largest of these 55 countries, the population is projected to
shrink by as much as 2.2 per cent or 31.4 million by 2050.
India is expected to add 273 million people more to its headcount.
