Population of india in 2023

UNDESA By the end of April, India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, with projections indicating further growth for several decades more, the UN That’s slightly higher than China’s global record of 1.4 billion in 2022. “China’s population reached its peak size in 2022 and has begun to decline,” Mr. Wilmoth told a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York. “Projections indicate that the size of the Chinese population could drop below one billion before the end of the century.” All about birth rates With nearly identical levels of fertility in 1971, just under six births per woman, the countries’ experiences half a century ago have charted their population path into the 21st century, according to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs ( By the end of the 1970s, fertility in China’s rate fell by half, to three births per woman. Meanwhile, it took India more than three decades for its fertility rate to reach that level. “During the second half of the twentieth century, both countries made concerted efforts to curb rapid population growth through policies that targeted fertility levels,” DESA said. “These policies, together with investments in human capital and gender equality, contributed to China’s plummeting fertility rate in the 1970s and to the more gradual declines that followed in the 1980s and 1990s.” By 2022, China had one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, which was 1.2 births per woman on average over a lifetime, according to ...

• Opinion • Leaders • Letters to the editor • By Invitation • Current topics • War in Ukraine • Climate change • Coronavirus • The Biden presidency • Recession watch • The Economist explains • Current topics • War in Ukraine • Climate change • Coronavirus • The Biden presidency • Recession watch • The Economist explains • World • The world this week • China • United States • Europe • Britain • Middle East & Africa • Asia • The Americas • International • In depth • Science & technology • Graphic detail • Special reports • Technology Quarterly • The World Ahead • Briefing • Essay • Schools brief • Business & economics • Finance & economics • Business • Big Mac index • A-Z of economics • Economic & financial indicators • Culture & society • 1843 magazine • Culture • Obituary • The Economist reads • Summer reads • Christmas Specials • More • Podcasts • Newsletters • Films • The Economist app • Subscriber events • Online courses C HINA HAS been the world’s most populous country for hundreds of years. In 1750 it had an estimated 225m people, more than a quarter of the world’s total. India, not then a politically unified country, had roughly 200m, which ranked it second. In 2023 it will seize the crown. The UN guesses that India’s population will surpass that of China on April 14th. India’s population on the following day is projected to be 1,425,775,850. The crown itself has little value, but it is a signal of things that matter. That India does not have a permanent seat on the ...

India officially world’s largest population According to the India’s total fertility rate (the average number of live births per woman) dropped below the 2.1 replacement level Financial incentives fail to boost birth rates South Korea’s fertility rate has been the world’s lowest for around a decade, but it’s dropped even further, shrinking from 0.81 in 2021 to only Births in Japan have also dropped to a new low, and the country’s population shrank by Many governments of other low-fertility countries are trying to encourage people to have more babies, with similarly poor success. While modest increases could likely be achieved if policies successfully tackled high cost of living, low wages, lack of job security, and UN survey: many believe planet is overpopulated A The survey was part of the research that went into UNFPA’s State of World Population 2023 report, published in April, which focuses on attitudes toward population size and how extreme views in either direction can be harmful. Unfortunately, the report claims all overpopulation narratives are problematic, citing common misconceptions such as that they place the blame on poor and marginalized communities. Historic deal for oceans reached Following almost two decades of negotiations, nations agreed in March on a New report disproves own claim that population is irrelevant A Limits to Growth report), argues that it is unequal resource distribution, rather than overpopulation, that is driving our environmental crises....