{"id":2569,"date":"2019-06-22T04:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T04:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2019-07-07T06:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T06:31:30","slug":"un-report-says-india-is-set-to-overtake-china-as-the-most-populous-country-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/un-report-says-india-is-set-to-overtake-china-as-the-most-populous-country-by-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"UN report says India is set to overtake China as the most populous country by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India is set to overtake China as the most populous country by 2027 and will have almost 1.64 billion inhabitants by 2050, says a\u00a0United Nations\u00a0<\/strong>report, adding that South Asia\u2019s opportunity to reap the \u201cdemographic dividend\u201d will peak by 2047.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally, people aged above 65 are the fastest growing age\ngroup, putting pressure on social protection systems as the proportion of the\nworking-age population shrinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the World Population Prospects 2019 report released\non Tuesday, India is expected to add 273 million people by 2050, which will be\nthe largest national increase in the world. China, on the other hand, is\nexpected to become smaller, dropping from its current 1.43 billion people to\napproximately 1.4 billion by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while India may have the highest absolute increase in\nnumbers, its rate of growth is slowing. The Central and the Southern Asia\nregion, of which India is a part, is expected to see a 25% increase in\npopulation between now and 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rate of population growth is the highest in sub-Saharan\nAfrica, where the fertility rate stand at 4.6 births per woman over a lifetime.\nThe region is expected to double its population by mid-century. Nigeria is\nexpected to add 200 million people over the next three decades and overtake the\nU.S. to become the third most populous nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving from geographical areas to age cohorts, India is still\namong the countries where the working-age population (25-64 years) is growing\nfaster than other groups, creating an opportunity for accelerated economic\ngrowth. However, the \u201cdemographic dividend\u201d will peak by 2047 in the region,\nmeaning that countries such as India must rush to invest in education and\nhealth, especially for young people, the report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally, it\u2019s the post-working-age group that is growing the\nfastest. By 2050, one in six people will be above 65, compared with one in 11\npeople in 2019. In 2018, for the first time in history, people above 65\noutnumbered children under five years of age. By 2050, the number of people\nover 80 is expected to triple to 426 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This trend has also led to falling proportions of working-age\npeople to support an ageing population. By 2050, almost 50 countries are\nexpected to have less than two working-age people to support every person above\n65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThese low values\nunderscore the potential impact of population ageing on the labour market and\neconomic performance as well as the fiscal pressures that many countries will\nface in the coming decades as they seek to build and maintain public systems of\nhealth care, pensions and social protection for older persons,\u201d says the\nreport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India is set to overtake China as the most populous country by 2027 and will have almost 1.64 billion inhabitants by 2050, says a\u00a0United Nations\u00a0report, adding that South Asia\u2019s opportunity to reap the \u201cdemographic dividend\u201d will peak by 2047. Globally, people aged above 65 are the fastest growing age group, putting pressure on social protection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}