Posted on 01/02/2023 8:48:01 PM PST by FarCenter
TOKYO/NEW DELHI -- The year 2023 marks a historic turning point for Asia's demography: For the first time in the modern era, India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country.
While the South Asian nation's growing and youthful population spells opportunities for development, it also creates layers of challenges, from poverty reduction to education. Experts say soaring demand for food could affect India's trade with other countries, while the World Bank recently estimated that India will need to invest $840 billion into urban infrastructure over the next 15 years to support its swelling citizenry.
"This is likely to put additional pressure on the already stretched urban infrastructure and services of Indian cities -- with more demand for clean drinking water, reliable power supply, efficient and safe road transport amongst others," the bank's report said.
India's dilemmas are only part of a complex and diverging Asian population picture -- split between young, growing countries and aging, declining ones. Humanity's latest milestone turns a spotlight on this gap and the problems on both sides of it.
The United Nations, whose population estimates date back to 1950, announced on Nov. 15 that the global population had likely hit the 8 billion mark. It had crossed 7 billion only 11 years earlier.
Asia is home to more than half of the 8 billion.
Besides China (1.426 billion) and India (1.417 billion), five other Asian countries had over 100 million people as of 2022, the U.N. figures show. Indonesia had 276 million, Pakistan's population was at 236 million, Bangladesh counted 171 million, Japan had 124 million and the Philippines had 116 million. Vietnam, with 98 million, is expected to join the club soon.
Reaching a world of 8 billion people signals significant improvements in public health that have increased life expectancy, the U.N. said. But it also pointed out, "The world is more demographically diverse than ever before, with countries facing starkly different population trends ranging from growth to decline."
Nowhere is this more apparent than in Asia. The region has young countries with a median age in the 20s, such as India (27.9 years old), Pakistan (20.4) and the Philippines (24.7), as well as old economies with median ages in the 40s, including Japan (48.7) and South Korea (43.9). The gap between the young and the old has gradually widened over the past decades.
The biggest country is not always the most powerful. Power often comes from making full use of one’s own resources, learning to negotiate via trade, and leveraging the appearance of influence.
Portugal was the most powerful country back in the 15th Century, mainly due to their command of trade routes.
India, beware!
Unlike most Americans and European Asia, countries India and China haven’t been engaged in wars killing millions of their best men. They have mostly been victims of wars.
Someone has probably written a book on the subject.
We killed off most all our best. Chinese and India did not.
it will be an interesting future for my grand kids.
Most likely India already passed China as most populous country. China’s self-reported stats are unreliable. China wanted to perpetuate the belief that it was most populous country in the world for economic reasons.
In Asia, better news for India than China.
In the Americas, Central & Southern Americans are flooding into the US unabated.
What do you call a “nation” without borders?
ANNIHILATED.
But where will they put all the poop?
Oh, never mind.
What “risk”?
At the rate the DP is going with their depopulation agenda, there is no need to worry about the world population getting that high.
They will simply manufacture another virus and “vaccine” bioweapon, or continue to starve us to death in the name of global warming.
Kill the people to “save the planet.”
I was hoping COVID would mitigate this vast human population situation somewhat. It didn’t....
Thanks, lightman. This boy Schwab is demonic. Pure evil.
At least 4 billion “useless eaters” SHALL BE eliminated?
Energy, food and water SHALL BE kept at subsistence levels for the NON-ELITE?
Curious exactly how my friend Klaus defines “elite” and “non-elite”. Betcha he identifies with the elite. And I am equally sure that you and I are “non-elite”.
I am what GOD’s Word says I am so I don’t necessarily go along. ;-)
Another reason why the Globalists / WEF want nuclear war.
Oh, they wont SAY it but they WILL work through useful idiots to cripple the food supply.
The Beyond Beyond Burger!
>> But where will they put all the poop?
Great question!
ON THE FIELDS, since “they” will eliminate chemical fertilizers.
Oh boy! Aren’t we lucky to have such betters??!?
“Eat Sh!t, peasant.”
My parents told me a was a ‘useless eater’ when I was about 12. I laughed about it. They weren’t laughing. Maybe they could see the future. More likely, they just saw a half empty refrigerator. Months later, I got my first regular job outside the home. Shoveling snow was not considered ‘work’.
Asia has always accounted for over half of global population.
I think the peak was around 500 BC when Asia accounted for nearly 75% of the world’s population.
Portugal controlled the trade routes in the 1500s, not 15th century, but the trade routes from Asia to Western Europe.
There were other powerful states at that time
- The Safavid empire
- The Ming Empire
- Ayutthaya
- the Khmer empire
- the Vijayanagara empire
And my knowledge of medieval sub-saharan Africa is poor at best
It does, however, feature in a book by John Coleman (here) called 'Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300.’
The book claims to detail an organisation called ‘the committee of 300’, a supposedly “all powerful group” that controls every aspect of the world.
Specifically, Coleman claims to summarise the work of a late member of the committee, who was outlining a proposal for a world revolution (see page 105)
I would urge you not to re-post that lie, there are a lot of true, bad things that Schwab has said, but this ain't one of them
Thanks for the maps of the old empires.
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