The HIM ratified that the India became the most populous country in the world with 1.425 million inhabitants, with which he surpassed China, which has 1,411 million, and was in the second step.
Anyway, This is an agency estimate. since the census that was to be carried out in India in 2021 was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest data provided by that country was for the 2012 count.
The trend of the growth of the Indian population and the decrease of new inhabitants in China has been taking place for decades, among other reasons, due to the strict family planning policies of the Chinese, in addition to the uncontrolled growth of megacities, and also to the lack of
Family planning policies in India.
According to UN forecasts, this scenario will continue in the coming years, so in 2050 India would reach a population of 1,688 million, while China would drop to 1,317 million.
All of these estimates are made by demographers at the UN Population Division, drawing on projections from a wide variety of data sources to come up with what they believe to be the up-to-date numbers.
What are the most populous countries on earth?
Behind India and China, the United States appears on the list of most populous countries, with 340 million inhabitants; Indonesian (278); Pakistan (240); Nigerian (224); Brazil (216); Bangladeshi (173); Russia (144) and Mexico (128).
Since the early 1950s, China was the most populous country in the world, when the United Nations population data began. Both China and India have more than 1.4 billion people and together account for more than a third of the world’s 8 billion people.
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