A UN research released on World Population Day predicts that India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation next year. The World Population Prospects 2022 report by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs predicted that by mid-November, there will be eight billion people on the planet, followed by 8.5 billion people in 2030 and 9.7 billion people in 2050. The population of the world is expected to peak at about 10.4 billion people during the 2080s and remain at that number until 2100, with growth occurring at the slowest rate since World War II.
“This year’s World Population Day (July 11) occurs in a historic year in which we look forward to welcoming the eighth billionth person to the planet. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, this is a time to celebrate our differences, acknowledge our shared humanity, and marvel at medical advances that have lengthened life expectancies and significantly lowered maternal and infant mortality rates.
In 2023, India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populated nation, according to the report. Through the end of the century, it is anticipated that population growth in Oceania, Northern Africa, Western Asia, and Australia and New Zealand will be slower but nonetheless favorable.
India was one of the ten nations with an expected net outflow of migrants from 2010 to 2021 that surpassed 1 million. The outflows were triggered by transient labour migrations in many of these nations. Pakistan was the country with the biggest net outflow of migrants (-16.5 million).
The Covid-19 pandemic’s effects were largely to blame for the decline in the world’s life expectancy at birth, which dropped from 72.8 years in 2019 to 71.0 years in 2021.
Through 2050, it is predicted that the momentum of previous growth will be responsible for two-thirds of the rise in the world’s population.
