According to the UN, India is about to surpass China as the most popular nation in the world.

With nearly 3 million more people than its neighbor by the middle of this date, India is poised to surpass China as the most popular country in the world, according to data from the UN released on Wednesday.

India‘s population by mid-year is estimated at 1.4286 billion, against 1.4257 billion for China – 2.9 million fewer – in the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) “State of World Population Report” for this year.

According to the information in a state that reflects information available until February, the United States is the far third country, with an estimated population of 340 million as of the end of June.

The UN’s’s most recent statement did not provide a date, but people experts have predicted that India will have more people than China this month based on previous content from the organization.

Given that the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the last survey, which was scheduled for 2021, and that India’s’s most recent census was conducted in 2011, UN people officials have stated that it is impossible to pinpoint a date.

Although both countries will account for more than a fourth of the 8.045 billion people in the world, both have seen slower population growth, with China experiencing significantly faster growth than India.

For the first time in six decades, China’s’s population decreased last summer. This historical development is expected to signal the beginning of a protracted period of population decline, which will have significant effects on both its economy and the rest of the world.

People earnings, according to Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, are influenced by both quantity and quality.

According to Wang,” China has taken energetic measures to react to population aging. Population is essential, but talents are already important.”

” Our people income has not vanished, as Premier Li Qiang pointed out. Our abilities income is increasing rapidly, and there is a strong drive for development, she said.

” POPULATION ANXIETY”

A national minister claimed that the facts were never discussed at a cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, but there was no official response from India to the information.

India‘s annual population growth has averaged 1.2% since 2011, down from 1.7% in the previous decade, government data shows.

According to a public survey conducted by UNFPA for the 2023 state, the most widely held belief in India, as well as in Brazil, Egypt, and Nigeria, was that each nation’s’s people” was quite big and fertility rates were also deep.”

The agency’s’s India representative, Andrea Wojnar, stated in a statement that” the Indian survey results suggest that people emotions have seeped into large components of the general public.”

However, people numbers shouldn’t cause fear or raise alarm. Therefore, if individual rights and options are being upheld, they should be seen as a symbol of progress, success, and desires.

India had done many things right in tackling population growth, said Poonam Muttreja, an official of the voluntary group Population Foundation of India.

She stated in a speech,” At the same time, we need to make sure that girls and women are never forced into early marriages and births, which limit their dreams.”

( Reporting by YP Rajesh, additional reporting by Andrew Hayley in BEIJING and Krishn Kaushik in NEW DELHI, with editing by Aurora Ellis, Clarence Fernandez, and Alex Richardson. )