Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 01-03-2018
India is destined to become the world’s largest country by population by 2024, overtaking China, which currently has a population of 1.4 billion.
And this growth isn’t expected to slow until around 2060, when approximately 1.67 billion people will call India home. By the year 2100 its population will have decreased, but will still be in excess of 1.5 billion.
This is according to data from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which predicts the global population will have swelled to more than 11 billion in the next 80 years.
China’s population, meanwhile, will have fallen to around one billion, representing a decline of around 400 million people in comparison to today.
The United States, which is currently the third-largest country, will see its population grow modestly from around 326 million today to roughly 447 million by 2100. However, in this time the US will have dropped to fourth place as a result of Nigeria’s rapid population growth.
The West African nation is expected to grow from around 195 million people today to just under 800 million by 2010, which is similar to the entire population of Europe (743 million). Incidentally, Europe’s population will decrease by around 90 million by the end of the century.
South Africa which currently has a population of about 57 million will see a growth to 77 million by 2100.
A number of other African nations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda, will experience rapid growth between now and 2100.
According to the UN, an increasing number of countries have fertility rates below the level required for the replacement of successive generations – estimated at 2.1 births per woman.
Between 2010 and 2015, for example, fertility was below the replacement level in 83 countries comprising 46% of the world’s population.
– WEF
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