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India is set to surpass China as the world's most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people by the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations on Wednesday showed.
India to overtake China as the world's most populous country by mid-2023, U.N. says. Although India and China will account for more than one-third of the estimated global population of 8.045 billion, the population growth in both Asian giants has been slowing.
India is expected to surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023. India is projected to reach 1.429 billion people this year, overtaking China for the first time since the United Nations began recording population rankings in 1950.
A major reason for low fertility is the legacy of China's one-child policy. High child-rearing costs, shifting ideologies on family and marriages, as well as the slowing economic growth have all been blamed for the population decline.
Current United Nations estimates show China's total population falling by up to 100 or 200 million by 2050. China's demographic trajectory is far from unusual.
Russia may be different. Its population is falling unusually fast and may drop to 130m by mid-century. The decline is associated with increased misery: the life expectancy at birth of Russian males plummeted from 68.8 in 2019 to 64.2 in 2021, partly because of covid, partly from alcohol-related disease.
Vatican city is the least populated country in the world with a population of just over 800 persons. Vatican City is the world's smallest fully independent nation-state.
Highest population density by country 2021
Monaco led the ranking for countries with the highest population density in 2021, with nearly 25,000 residents per square kilometer. The Special Administrative Region Macao came in second, followed by Singapore.
China's population is aging faster than almost all other countries in modern history. In 2050, the proportion of Chinese over retirement age will become 39 percent of the total population according to projections. China is rapidly aging at an earlier stage of its development than other countries.
Based on the hypothesis that China can produce 830 million tons of grain at maximum, the researchers concluded that the region is able to support 1.66 billion people (assuming 500-550 kg/person/year).
Some consensus has concluded that China has reached the qualifications of superpower status, citing China's growing political clout and leadership in the economic sectors has given the country renewed standings in the International Community.
There is still much work to be done to propel China to the top of the world's economy, but it is certainly possible that the Chinese economy can surpass the power of the US by 2050.
Lower literacy rates are found mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011. In terms of the largest number of native speakers, Mandarin is the world's most spoken language.
Monaco has the highest life expectancy in the world in 2023, according to World Population Review, where locals live to an average age of 87. Asian countries in the top 10 include Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, while European countries that made the list include Switzerland and Italy.
Australia's population density is low because most of the country's interior is desert (also known as the outback) and presents extremely difficult living conditions.
Australia is colloquially known as "the Land Down Under" (or just "Down Under"), which derives from the country's position in the Southern Hemisphere, at the antipodes of the United Kingdom.
Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. As at 30 June 2021 there were 984,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, representing 3.8% of the total Australian population.
Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. According to the US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
It has even been reported that excessive alcohol consumption is to blame for nearly half of all premature deaths in Russia. A recent study blamed alcohol for more than half the deaths (52%) among Russians aged 15 to 54 from 1990 to 2001. For the same demographic, this compares to 4% of deaths for the rest of the world.
Some of the objective reasons for Russia's demographic problems reflect historical dynamics: the number of women of childbearing age is falling, and the average age at which women are having children is rising steadily in modernized, urban, well-educated populations.