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South Asia correspondent Avani Dias, Som Patidar, Katia Shatoba, Thomas Brettell, Alex Palmer, Mark Doman and Lucy Sweeney

India will overtake China as the world's biggest nation, but is it ready to be the next global superpower?

There are more than 8 billion people, and counting, spread out across Earth.

It's a number so enormous, it can be hard to fathom unless you break it down into a more comprehensible scale. 

This is the world's population, in dots. (ABC News)
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