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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Lydia Chantler-Hicks

India set to be world’s most populous nation by mid-2023, surpassing China

India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation by the middle of this year - surpassing China for the first time since records began more than 70 years ago.

The South Asian country will have an estimated 1.4286 billion people against China’s 1.4257 billion by the middle of the year, according to United Nations projections.

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