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According to the UN's World Population dashboard, India's population now stands at slightly over 1.428 billion, edging past China's population of 1.425 billion people, as reported by the news agency Bloomberg. [16] In 2015, India's population was predicted to reach 1.7 billion by 2050.
As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population . [ 2 ] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area ; the most populous country from June 2023 onwards; [ 21 ] [ 22 ] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
List of countries and inhabited territories by total population. United Nations Country or territory Population (1 July 2022) ... India: 1,425,423,212: 1,438,069,596
according to the United Nations, India now has more people than China, an epochal shift in global demographics that happened sometime in late April. How India’s population exploded to overtake ...
India has the largest population of people adhering to Zoroastrianism and Baháʼí Faith in the world, even though these two religions are not native to India. [104] Many other world religions also have a relationship with Indian spirituality, such as the Baháʼí Faith which recognises Buddha and Krishna as manifestations of the God Almighty ...
India is burning ever greater amounts of coal and oil as it tries to meet the needs of its 1.4 billion people. But it also has huge renewable potential. India’s urban population is exploding.
The population of India as per 2011 census was 1,210,854,977. [31] India added 181.5 million to its population since 2001, slightly lower than the population of Brazil. India, with 2.4% of the world's surface area, accounts for 17.5% of its population. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with roughly 200 million people.