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Radio France Internationale
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Pratap Chakravarty

India to gallop past China as world’s most populated country by 2023

The UN has renewed calls for population control in India, where last year around 67,000 babies were born a day compared to 27,397 in China. Creative commons

The United Nations estimates India will overtake China as the world’s most crowded place in 2023. Their combined headcount will account for nearly 3 billion of the 8 billion people on the planet by next year.

India’s population of 1.41 billion is a shade lower than China’s 1.42 billion, according to the UN.

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