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  World Population Day: India's population to decline after 2061- What will happen to China and the US

  India | July 11, 2025 13:24 IST

  India's population is projected to peak at around 1.7 billion in the early 2060s before gradually declining but it will remain the world's most populous country through the century.

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  India’s population estimated at 144 crore, overtakes China: UNFPA report

  India | April 17, 2024 15:59 IST

  The report also detailed that an estimated 24 per cent of India’s population is aged 0-14 while 17 per cent is within the 10-19 age range. The segment aged 10-24 is estimated to constitute 26 per cent, with the 15-64 age group making up 68 per cent.

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  'India has no dearth of capability, it has biggest talent factory': PM Modi's savage reply to China

  World | May 23, 2023 16:52 IST

  Earlier last month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin contended that it was important to look at "quality" as well as "size" while assessing a country's demographic dividend.

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  Cartoon neither funny nor appropriate: German envoy slams cartoonist for mocking India's population

  India | April 27, 2023 23:01 IST

  The cartoon was published by German magazine Der Spiegel, about India's population overtaking China.

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  World population to reach 8 billion today; India to cross China as most populous country by 2023

  World | November 15, 2022 12:18 IST

  World Population: According to the latest U.N.projections, the world's population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and a peak of around 10.4 billion during the 2080s

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  India projected to surpass China as world’s most populous country during 2023: UN report

  India | July 11, 2022 12:17 IST

  Indian population news:The World Population Prospects 2022 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, said that the global population is projected to reach eight billion on November 15, 2022.

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  India on verge of achieving SDG target of 70 per lakh live births by 2030: Govt

  India | March 14, 2022 16:46 IST

  Quoting a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)released by the Registrar General of India, the ministry said the country has been witnessing a progressive reduction in MMR from 130/lakh in 2014-2016, 122/lakh in 2015-17, 113/lakh in 2016-18, and 103 per lakh live births in 2017-19.

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  Netizens poke fun at Imran Khan's latest statement on India's population. Watch Video

  World | August 04, 2021 12:16 IST

  The statement by the Pakistan prime minister came while having an interaction with citizens, a video of which has now gone viral on social media.

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  India's population to surpass that of China by 2024, says UN report

  India | June 22, 2017 8:28 IST

  India's population could surpass that of China around 2024, two years later than previously estimated, and is projected to touch 1.5 billion in 2030, according to a UN forecast

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  India overtakes China to become world’s most populous country: Report

  India | May 25, 2017 16:33 IST

  India’s population, which currently stands at around 1.21 billion according to 2011 Census, has increased fourfold since its independence.

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  6.54 cr Indians never went to school, 4.49 cr dropped out, reveals Census

  India | October 31, 2016 20:28 IST

  The recent Census data seems to have answered many questions regarding the country’s low literacy rate. As per the 2011 Census data, as many as 6.54 crore Indians in the age group of 5-19 years

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  In 7 years, India's population to overtake China's

  India | August 01, 2015 13:16 IST

  India will overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2022, says a new UN report which revises its previous estimates, which put the date around 2028. In 2015, India had 1.311 billion people, according to

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  India to surpass China in population in seven years: United Nations

  India | July 29, 2015 23:43 IST

  Washington:  India is expected to surpass China to become the world's most populous nation by 2022, the United Nations said today.China and India remain the two largest countries in the world, each with more than

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  Meet India's billionth baby Aastha Arora who turned 15 this month!

  India | May 13, 2015 23:58 IST

  Fifteen years back, India's official population reached the mark of one billion with the birth of a baby girl-‘Aastha' on May 11, 2000.Amid the nation-wide coverage and flashing cameras, Aastha- faith in Hindi, was born