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India’s population of 1.4 billion makes it the world’s most-populous country, after it surpassed China’s population in 2022. India’s population is also expected to keep increasing through ...
Based on this, the UN projected that the world population, 8 billion as of 2023, would peak around the year 2086 at about 10.4 billion, and then start a slow decline, assuming a continuing decrease in the global average fertility rate from 2.5 births per woman during the 2015–2020 period to 1.8 by the year 2100 (the medium-variant projection).
The U.N. says the population on Earth will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15, and India will replace China as the world's most populous nation next year. ... 9.7 billion in 2050 and a peak of around 10.4 ...
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
In 2015, India's population was predicted to reach 1.7 billion by 2050. [16] [17] In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%. [18]
These countries have reached their population peak. As of 2024, 63 countries, including China, Germany, Japan, and Russia, have already seen their populations peak, according to the report, which ...
According to United Nations population statistics, the world population grew by 30%, or 1.6 billion humans, between 1990 and 2010. [39] In number of people the increase was highest in India (350 million) and China (196 million). Population growth rate was among highest in the United Arab Emirates (315%) and Qatar (271%). [39]
The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the ...