In 2022 statistics China remains the most populated country!
According to the 27th edition of the United Nations’ World Population prospects of 2022 released on Monday, India is projected to surpass China as the most populated country in 2023.
In 2022, China remains the most populated with a 1426 million population and India at second position with just a marginally less population of 1412 million. In less than 100 years, the Global population is projected to reach 8 billion on November 15, 2022, three times more than the population of 2.5 billion in 1950.
The findings, however, also show a decrease in fertility rates across the globe. The United Nations reports found out that since 1950, for the first time in 2020the rate of population growth fell by 1 per cent and it is projected to slow down in the coming years and through the end of this century.
The population of China was 1144 million in 1990 and did not report a huge change in comparison to India’s population in 1990 which was just 861 million, a small figure in comparison to now 1412 million.
The United Nations also said that by 2050 India’s population is projected to reach 1668 million far exceeding China’s population which is rapidly declining. The global population by 2050 is said to have touched 9.7 billion.
Poonam Muttreja, the executive director of the population foundation of India, on the matter said, “These numbers are not drastically different from the UN’s earlier projections. The 2019 World Population Prospects report had said that India would overtake China by 2027.
So, we knew that India was going to overtake China in a matter of a few years. If we look at it over the last 50 years, India’s growth rate stood at 2.3 per cent in 1972, which has dropped down to less than 1 per cent now.
In this period, the number of children each Indian woman has during her lifetime has come down from about 5.4 to less than 2.1 now. This means that we have attained the Replacement Fertility Rate, at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.
Usage of modern contraceptives is rising across the country and the desired fertility rate for all communities in India is less than 2, according to the latest National Family Health Survey data,”.
Muttreja also asked the government to play a pivotal role in investing in education, health and creating economic opportunities for the youth, which could eventually help us with what economists call demographic dividend.
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