INDIA, June 16, 2011 (peopleandplanet.com): India will overtake China in terms of population by 2025, an analysis of the provisional Census, 2011 data suggests. India’s population of over 1.2 billion is then expected to have grown to more than 1.4 billion.
Reporting this, The Hindu newspaper says that with more than 1.2 billion people, India contains about 17.5 per cent of the world’s people – meaning that every sixth person on earth is an Indian. China is the only country with a larger population, with 144 million more people.
Nearly 27 million children are born every year in India and only 16 million in China. In the last 20 years, India’s population has increased by more than 350 million, while China’s has increased only by 210 million. With China successfully managing the population issue, it has been able to improve the rate of economic growth, says The Hindu.