India will have an estimated 1.4286 billion people against China's 1.4257 billion by the middle of the year. Combined, both countries make up more than a third of the world’s 8 billion people.
most populous nation, surpassing China by 2.9 million people by mid-2023, according to data released by the United Nations on Wednesday.
Not long ago, India wasn’t expected to become most populous until later this decade. But the timing has been sped up by a drop in China’s fertility rate, with families having fewer children.despite the government retreating from its one-child policy seven years ago. Experts say this could mean an expanding labor force that can help fuel growth in the country for decades to come. But they warn it could just as swiftly become a demographic liability if the growing number of young people in India are not adequately employed.
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