India overtakes China as world’s most populous country – see the graphs: China has announced its population has shrunk for the first time since the early Fifties as fertility rates tumble.

The Express ^ | 01/20/2023 | Ollie Corfe

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On November 15, the United Nations (UN) estimated the world’s population to have surpassed eight billion. This week, new demographic statistics from China show the country’s reported population decline throughout 2022 has resulted in India now taking the top spot as the world’s most populous nation.

A country’s development and demographics tend to follow a familiar pattern. As a nation gets richer, improvements in healthcare see mortality rates fall and population growth accelerate.

Eventually, as women are empowered to enter education and the workforce, and as the cost of raising children rises, fertility rates – the total number of births in a year per 1,000 women of reproductive age – decline, and population growth slows.

Despite the world recently crossing the eight billion threshold, the rate at which the global population is going up is easing off – the UN putting the figure below one percent in 2020 for the first time in 70 years.

On Tuesday, as a result of a pandemic baby bust China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported the country’s population had gone down by 850,000 over the past year – the first decline since 1951, according to Our World in Data. As a result, India is now likely the most populous nation on the planet.

The news was widely expected, but not quite this soon. Most experts agreed India would overtake its northern neighbour at some point this year or the next. The UN had even guessed April 14 specifically.

However, now that China’s statistical agency has estimated the country’s population to have been 1.412 billion at the end of last year – when World Population Review calculated India’s to be 1.417 billion – the switch at the top may already have happened.

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China’s massive population has been crucial to its unprecedented transformation into a global economic powerhouse over the past few decades. Although Chinese GDP is today almost six times larger, India is set to catch up fast.

[EEGator]

The two rudest groups of humans I have ever had the displeasure to engage with.

[Gaffer]

IMO Indians are far worse. They will become our biggest threat.

[Maine Mariner]

Ten or fifteen years ago, economists who specialize in economic development asked the following question:
Does China get rich before it gets old; or does it get old before it gets rich?

The information presented in this article sugeests the latter.

[EEGator]

I agree.

[dfwgator]

I think half of India lives in my city of Frisco, Texas.

[nwrep]

[nwrep]

[nwrep]

It shows how great modern medicine is that a s***hole country with poor hygiene and terrible overcrowded cities and diseases like India can still grow so fast.

[caww]

I’d never go to that nation - ever.

[mikey_hates_everything]

And they’re mostly ugly. Did two 3-week TDYs in New Delhi. Didn’t learn from the first one and couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there the second. French tourists at the Hyatt I was at. Couldn’t believe people paid to go there. Seeing the Taj Mahal isn’t worth the stench, getting sick and continual diarrhea.

Biggest fear was having the shits on the 32 hour plane ride home. Fortunately I was there long enough to get over one bout and get out before the next hit. Warned against taking Kaopectate against the shits as the Indian bugs will eat through your colon if you suppress the symptoms. Seinfeld nailed it.

[Fuzz]

Well, you won’t survive the apocalypse.

[caww]

[Clemenza]

Chinese are greedy, rude and their women are built like boys. Other than the food they are not an asset to the United States and do not belong in any western nation.

[Nervous Tick]

Most all of the Chinese I know personally — all in the US — are even-tempered.

However in my experience, Indians come in only two flavors: quite mild-mannered, and extremely aggressive jerks. Nothing in the middle.

[sushiman]

Chinese , Africans and Indians are the future of the world . Whites are on the way out .

[mikey_hates_everything]

If the Apocalypse is going to be like India or most of Africa, ok. Fentanyl is not difficult to find if I need some.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Skywise]

Uh-huh… “fertility rates” and not their mass Covid euthanasia program…

[poinq]

Does China get rich before it gets old; or does it get old before it gets rich?

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China is rich now. A third of China has wealth surpassing most European countries. That third is about 400 million people. Yes there are those other 800 million people, many who still live in the sticks. But don’t think of China as rich or poor. They are rich and poor. There is a first world country with all the wealth of of all the wealthiest G7 countries. And its sitting inside a third world country.

And this is important because China does not need help from us. They need to understand that they are the solution or the problem. The rest of the world can try to help the third world China but the charity money will always be diverted to the top 1%.