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Aprajita Sarcar, Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, UNSW Sydney

Calls for a 'one-child policy' in India are misguided at best, and dangerous at worst

India will surpass China as the country with the world’s largest population in 2023, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 report.

The UN also projects the global population has reached eight billion as of Tuesday.

As early as March 2022, reports circulated on Chinese social media that India’s population had already surpassed China’s, though this was later dispelled by experts.

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