NEW DELHI (AP) — India is on observe to change into the world’s most populous nation, surpassing China by 2.9 million individuals by mid-2023, in accordance with information launched by the United Nations on Wednesday.
The South Asian nation could have an estimated 1.4286 billion individuals in opposition to China’s 1.4257 billion by the center of the yr, in accordance with UN projections.
China has had the world’s largest inhabitants since a minimum of 1950, the yr United Nations inhabitants information started. Each China and India have greater than 1.4 billion individuals, and mixed they make up greater than a 3rd of the world’s 8 billion individuals.