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“India will be most populous country by 2050”
New Delhi: India will become the most populous country overtaking China by 2050, the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has projected.
India, whose population is growing by 1.5 per cent, will have 165.8 crore people against China’s 140.8 crore by 2050 , the ‘State of World Population 2008’ report of UNFPA released on Wednesday said.
The total fertility rate in India is 2.78 per cent while it is 1.73 in China, where the population is growing by 0.6 per cent, the report said.
Pakistan, whose population is 16.7 crore now, will have 29.2 crore by 2050. However, Sri Lanka would witness negative growth during this period. Its present population of 1.94 crore would come down to 1.87 crore then, it said.
Afghanistan, where the population is growing at 3.9 per cent , is projected at 7.9 crore by 2050 from the current 2.8 crore, the report said.
Similarly, the population of Bangladesh will increase from 16.1 crore to 25.4 crore during this period. Nepal’s population will go up to 5.2 crore from 2.8 crore . — PTI
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