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India overtakes China in population – experts

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By the end of 2022, India’s population will surpass China’s by 5 million people, according to the World Population Review.

India has surpassed China in terms of population. By the end of 2022, the country’s population will be 1.417 billion people, which is 5 million more than the figure announced in China, Bloomberg reported on January 18, citing data from the World Population Review.

On the eve of the Chinese authorities announced that last year the country’s population for the first time since the 1960s decreased compared to the previous year by 850 thousand people and reached 1.411 billion people.

The World Population Review estimates that India’s population has reached 1.423 billion as of January 18. Research platform Macrotrends says that 1.428 billion people live in the country.

It has been noted that India, where half of the population is under 30 years of age, will be the fastest growing major economy in the world in the coming years.

The UN estimates that more than half of the world’s projected population growth between 2022 and 2050 will be in eight countries: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.

It will be remembered that in November 2022, the world’s population, according to UN estimates, will grow to eight billion people. It took 12 years to increase the world’s population by 1 billion people.

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