China will no longer be the world’s most populous nation. India’s population will overtake it this year at an estimated population of 1.42 billion.
It’s an epochal transition which speaks to other underlying demographic changes across the world, including the fact that China’s population has peaked and is now falling. Meanwhile, the region with the fastest-rising population – from a current base of around 1.4 billion – is Africa.
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