With declining birth and death rates having distorted the balance of the population pyramid, social security for senior citizens has become a pressing economic concern Written by Bibek Debroy ...

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The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the ...

Population growth has long been a source of worry in India, which now has more people than China: 1.486 billion residents. But some experts are optimistic about the impact of this population boom.

What is India’s population density? In 2020, India’s population density was estimated to be about 1217 people per square mile (470 per square kilometer), according to the World Bank.

India is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year, a United Nations report said on Monday, warning that ...

But by 2027, India will have more people than China, according to the UN’s 2019 World Population Prospects report released Monday, and by 2050 the gap is expected to have widened even further.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly India has long been a byword for overpopulation ...

China's population drops for first time in 60 years 06:16. New Delhi — India is on track to surpass China as the country with the largest population in the world by summer 2023, according to a ...