![]() ![]() By comparison, the rates for China and the United States stood at 68 per cent and 61 per cent respectively in the same year. India’s labour force participation rate (an estimation of the active workforce and people looking for work,) stood at 46 per cent in 2021 which is among the lowest in Asia.įemale participation in the workforce was even lower at 19 per cent, down from 26 per cent in 2005. While India continues to enjoy its demographic dividend, it could have adverse effects if enough employment opportunities are not generated for people entering the workforce every year. The country’s population has more than quadrupled. More than half of the estimated increase in global population between 20 will be in just eight countries: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Tanzania. India is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people by the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations on Wednesday showed. The United Nations says India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation, surpassing China by 2.9 million people by mid-2023. According to India’s National Commission on Population, it will reach 1.52 billion by 2036. WPR predicts that while India’s population growth has slowed, it will continue to rise till 2050. The reasons estimated are the surging cost of living, the erstwhile ‘one-child policy’ (discontinued in 2016), and the ‘later, longer, fewer’ family planning campaigns. data: United States: 340.0 million Indonesia: 277. data: United States: 340.0 million Indonesia: 277.5 million. This decline has come about a decade earlier than UN predictions. Each of these countries ranks among the worlds most populous in 2023, each with at least 100 million people, according to U.N. Each of these countries ranks among the worlds most populous in 2023, each with at least 100 million people, according to U.N. The last time China reported a fall was during the ‘Great Leap Forward’, an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962, leading to widespread famine and starvation. India’s population is now 1,425,775,850, outpacing China, which has been the most populous country since at least 1950, The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing UN’s world. World’s five most populous countries are China, India, the US, Indonesia, and Pakistan, with a combined population of 3.6 billion. While India’s population was 1.42 billion as of January 18, China for the first time reported a fall of 850,000 since the 1960s and now stands at 1.41 billion. According to United Nations’ latest projections of global population, India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country in April 2023. According to projections by the World Population Review, India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation.
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