After China occupied for years the first place in the world in terms of population, the United Nations announced that India will overtake China next week in terms of population, to become the most populous country in the world with about 1.43 billion people.
“By the end of this month, India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, equaling and then surpassing the population of mainland China,” the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York said in a statement.
What does the report say?
On April 19, a report by the United Nations Population Fund on the state of population in the world estimated that the population of India would reach 1.4286 billion people, compared to 1.4257 billion for China by mid-2023.
“China’s population peaked at 1.426 billion in 2022 and is beginning to decline. Projections indicate that China’s population may drop to less than 1 billion by the end of the century, while India’s population is expected to continue to grow over several decades,” the statement read. .
According to official figures published at the beginning of the year, China’s population declined last year for the first time since 1960-1961 after a famine that began in 1959 that left tens of millions of deaths as a result of the major economic campaign “The Great Leap Forward” adopted by the Chinese Communist Party in 1958.
Ironically, this population decline in China comes despite the relaxation of birth control policy in the past years.
Ten years ago, a Chinese family had only one child. And since 2021, she can have three children.
This decline is generally attributed to the cost of living, which has risen a lot in China, as well as the cost of educating a child, and the high level of education of women has led to a delay in pregnancy.
As for India, the country does not have any official information about its population because it has not conducted a census since 2011.
The census in India, which takes place only once in a decade, was supposed to take place in 2021, but it was postponed due to the Covid-19 epidemic, while logistical obstacles and political hesitation prevented it from being conducted, and it is unlikely that this large-scale process will be organized soon.
The Indian economy is facing difficulties in providing jobs for the millions of young people who enter the labor market annually, noting that half of the population of this giant in South Asia is under the age of 30.
*The population is likely to grow to 11 billion by 2100
In another report, the United Nations expected the world population to increase to 9.7 billion in 2050, compared to 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling.
The population is likely to grow to 11 billion by the year 2100, according to the World Population Prospects report issued by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
The report paints a picture of a future in which many countries will witness a rise in population as their citizens age, while the global population growth rate slows amid declining fertility rates. By 2050, more than half of the global population growth will be concentrated in only nine countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Republic of the Congo Democracy, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States of America.
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2023-04-25 06:59:31
