A report from the United Nations suggests that India will become the most populous nation in the world, surpassing China, in the next three months.
The United Nations report shows that India is expected to overtake China in terms of overall population by April and will have almost 1.7 billion people by 2050 compared to China’s expected 1.31 billion, Yahoo News reported.
Meanwhile, India’s population is expected to provide more than a sixth of the increase of the world’s working-age population of 15- to 64-year-olds between now and 2050.
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About 1 in 4 of the 1.41 billion people in India are under the age of 15 and nearly half the population is under 25.
India has also long been compared to China, and they have for a long time traded with one another.
India and China have been responsible for an estimated 35% of the world’s population growth since 1950. »