India has now overtaken China in terms of population. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) most recent statistics, India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation by 2.9 million.
8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The Case for Rights and Choice is the title of the UNFPA’s “The State of the World Population Report, 2023,” which was published on Wednesday.
The ‘Demographic Indicators’ segment of the report contains the most recent data. India’s population has now surpassed China’s for the first time since the United Nations started compiling and publishing population data in 1950.