India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country in less than a decade, according to a new United Nations report
China and India currently account for about 37% of the entire global population of roughly 7.7 billion, with China currently home to about 1.4 billion people and India to 1.3 billion.But by 2027, India will have more people than China, according to the UN's 2019 World Population Prospects report released Monday, and by 2050 the gap is expected to have widened even further.
A two-child policy in overpopulated India? It won't work, say expertsChina has been attempting to preemptively tackle a looming population decline for years. With the country's population rapidly aging and birth rates falling, Beijing even reversed its infamous One Child policy to encourage couples to have more children.But with an increasingly urban population facing rising costs of living, attempts to push up the birth rate have failed.
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