Demographic upheaval: India is expected to overtake China as the most populous country on the planet, a special United Nations report revealed today. According to the report in 2023 the two countries have a population of 1.4 billion and next year, 2023 India will overtake The China.
The report warns that a country’s high birth rate is challenging its economic growth and its ability to face a host of significant economic challenges. So today the real size of India’s population is only approximate.
Beyond China and India, it turns out that the world's population is estimated to reach a peak of 8 billion by November 15 this year.
Beyond that, by 2030 the world population will grow to 8.5 billion people and it will reach 10.4 billion people by 2100, against the background of the slowdown in mortality.
However according to the UN the growth rate of the world population today is the lowest since 1950 and this is after by 2020 the rate has already dropped below one percent.
In terms of human fertility in 2021, the average fertility of the world population was 2.3 births per woman compared to 5 births per woman A fertility rate measured in 1950. Here too, global fertility is expected to fall further to 2.1 births per woman by 2050. It seems that by the middle of the century there will be almost a halt in the rate of growth of the human population on Earth.
In any case, according to the UN, more than half of the projected increase in the world population by 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries - the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania. On the other hand, the population of 61 countries is expected to decline by 1% or more between 2022 and 2050.
With the publication of the report on growth and productivity, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutters said that “this is an opportunity to recognize our common humanity on the one hand and our cultural diversity on the other.
It is also an opportunity to marvel at the advances in world health that have extended life expectancy and dramatically reduced the mortality rates of mothers and children. "
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