Phnom Penh (FN), Apr. 12 – The UN believes that India’s population will peak somewhere in the mid 2060s, just shy of the 1.7B mark.

China’s population boom has officially come to an end, with the country reporting two consecutive years of decreases (down 850K in 2022, and 2.1M in 2023). The country’s population in 2050 is forecasted to be 1.32B, which is roughly the same as it was in 2007.

Whether these predictions come true will largely depend on how quickly birth rates fall as the country becomes more developed. For example, India's fertility fell from 6.2 in 1950, to 2 in 2021 (births per woman).

Projections are based on a medium fertility scenario, which assumes countries will converge at a birth rate of 1.85 children per woman, by 2045-2050.

This article was originally published on Voronoiapp.
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