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UN: India will be most populous nation sooner than thought

Published Thu, Jul 30, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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DEMOGRAPHERS have known for some time that the number of people in India would surpass the number in China, the two most populous countries in the world. But they did not anticipate that the change would happen so quickly.

The United Nations reported on Wednesday that India's population will probably surpass China's by 2022, not 2028, as the organisation had forecast just two years ago.

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