India Projected to Overtake China as World’s Most Populous Country by 2027: UN Report
- India is expected to surpass China to become the world’s most populous country in the next eight years, by or around 2027 as per the UN report ‘The World Population Prospects 2019.
- The report says that India is expected to add nearly 273 million people between 2019 and 2050.
- Population of Nigeria is projected to grow by 200 million and is second only to India. Together, these two countries could account for 23 percent of the global population increase to 2050.
- The world’s population is expected to increase by two billion people in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050.