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. Based on the ...

As of May 2023, India is the most populous country in the world. According to the United Nations, India surpassed its neighbor China, which was previously the world’s most populous nation, in late ...

NEW DELHI (IANS) – India’s population is projected to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, making it the world’s most populous nation, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s State of World ...

Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been citing evidence that the United Nations world population projection group has been massively ...

India's population, more than 1.4 billion, has surpassed that of mainland China, new United Nations data released this week showed. By summer, it will have about 2.9 million more people than the ...

Population growth has long been a source of worry in India, which now has more people than China: 1.486 billion residents. But some experts are... India's population passes 1.4 billion — and that's ...

On New Year’s Day in 2021, nearly 60,000 babies were born across India—the highest number of births given anywhere in the world that day, according to UNICEF. The record-breaking number also ...

India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks. But the country’s immense size also lays bare its enormous challenges. By Mujib Mashal and Alex Travelli Reporting ...