India’s Population To Beat China’s By 2022 — UN Warning

The overall growth rate, which peaked in the late 1960s, has been falling steadily since the 1970s. In Africa, children under 15 account for two fifths of the population.

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Fertility, measured by the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime, is declining across the world but the population continues to rise as rates remain high.

By 2100, the global population is set to reach 11.2 billion.

Fast-growing Nigeria is on course to outstrip the United States by about 2050 to become the country with the third largest population, the report added.

High fertility rates in a number of countries have been named as the cause of the extra 2.4 billion people in just 35 years. By 2050, Nigeria’s population will surpass that of the US.

The US will have a median age of 40 years in 2030, 41.7 years in 2050 and 44.7 years in 2100.

The bulk of India’s population would be young and productive, providing the nation with what is known as demographic dividend.

John Wilmoth, director of the population division in the UN’s department of economic and social affairs, said that high levels of growth in the world’s poorest countries would have worrying results. From 2030, when its population is projected to reach 1.5 billion, India is likely to experience several decades of growth. The population of China, meanwhile, is expected to remain stable until the 2030s, and then decline.

Population growth has slowed in recent years, with an annual increase of 1.18 per cent in 2015 compared with 1.24 per cent ten years ago. Among the largest in this group are Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda and Afghanistan.

Nearly 90 per cent of Indian population is now young (age between 0-59 years), which would be around 80 per cent by 2050 and 65 per cent by 2100. This coupled with a decline in births shows that natural population growth is no longer happening.

The world’s population is projected to increase to 8.5 billion by the year 2030, and exceed 11 billion within the next century, a United Nations report released Wednesday, July 29, said, according to Fox News. By 2100 there will be 82.3 million living in Britain.

Brazil and Mexico, which are now among the world’s 10 most populous countries, will continue growing until 2050, when their populations will stand at 238 million and 164 million, respectively.

In least developed countries, steep reductions in fertility are expected.

India will overtake its Asian rival China to become the world’s biggest country, a new UN study has predicted.