India will be most populated country by 2022 — UN Study

Fast-growing Nigeria is requried to be made by course to surpass the United States by about 2050 to become the country using the third base most popular human population, the United Nations believed.

Key findings of the “World Population Prospects 2015” released by the UN on Wednesday listed China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the United States as the other five countries to have 300 million population by 2050.

“The large number of young people in Africa who will reach adulthood in the coming years and have children of their own, ensures that the region will play a central role in shaping the size and distribution of the world’s population over the coming decades”, he said. That nation is now ranked seventh in global population. A new framework, focused on poverty eradication, social inclusion and preserving the health of the planet, is set to be adopted at a special UN summit, in New York this September.

He said that the current global population of 7.3 billion was forecast to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, slightly above the last set of UN projections. Experts predict Africa will account for more than half the world’s population growth in the next 35 years.

India’s bigger population initially gives it the economic advantage of a demographic dividend or benefit from the increased productivity of the youth, but it will also put a greater stress on the resources of India’s area of 3.288 million sq kilometres compared to China’s 9.597 million sq kilometres.

In Bangladesh, the 60-plus population will exceed 37 by 2100, the report added.

“The concentration of growth in the poorest countries will make it harder to eradicate poverty, combat hunger and expand schooling and health systems”.

Beyond more people actually being born, aging populations are living longer, which adds to the significant growth. And there should be 11.2 billion people on Earth by the end of this century. The six-year average gain in life expectancy among the poorest countries, from 56 years in 2000-2005 to 62 years in 2010-2015, is roughly double the increase recorded for the rest of the world.