Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 11: India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populated nation next year, according to a United Nations research released on Monday. The report also predicted that the world’s population would hit eight billion people by mid-November 2022.
According to the World Population Prospects 2022 report from the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the world’s population is expected to exceed eight billion on November 15, 2022.
In 2020, the world’s population decreased by less than 1%, rising at its sluggishest rate since 1950. According to the United Nations’ most recent estimates, the world’s population may reach 8.5 billion people in 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050.
The population is predicted to peak at 10.4 billion people in the 2080s and stay there until 2100.
In 2022, Central and Southern Asia (2.1 billion people) and Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (2.3 billion people), which together accounted for 26% of the world’s population, were the two most populous continents.
With more over 1.4 billion people apiece, China and India had the greatest populations in these areas in 2022. Just eight nations—the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Tanzania—will account for more than half of the predicted growth in the world’s population by 2050.
In 2022, India would have 1.412 billion people, compared to China’s 1.426 billion, the report states. India is expected to have 1.668 billion people by the middle of the century, much above China’s 1.317 billion, which will make it the most populated country in the world by 2023.
According to the analysis, between 2010 and 2021, eight nations saw a net outflow of more than 1 million migrants.
In 2019, the average life expectancy at birth was 72.8 years, an increase of about 9 years since 1990. It is anticipated that further mortality declines will lead to an average worldwide lifetime of roughly 77.2 years in 2050. But in 2021, the least developed nations’ life expectancy lagged 7 years behind the average worldwide.
The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has also conducted alternative long-term population estimates (IHME). According to IHME’s most recent predictions, the world’s population will total 8.8 billion people by the year 2100, with a range of 6.8 billion to 11.8 billion.
