India has overtaken China in the rank of the world's most populous nations, with over 1.46 billion people as of 2025In 2022, ...

The report forecasts that the world’s population will continue to swell over the next several decades — growing from 8.2 billion people in 2024 to a peak of nearly 10.3 billion people in 50 to ...

Spell-binding animated charts track how quickly world's most populated countries will grow or shrink by 2100 - with number of citizens living in China expected to HALVE by end of century ...

The point of that chart is simpler than its details, though. Just look at how the proportion of purple to orange shifts. That’s the split between the two ways in which population can grow.

There is a theme there (slower population growth overall). But perhaps what stands out the most is frontier markets: higher than the rest, and expected to remain high.

CNN analyzed the UN’s World Population Prospects data and spoke to experts to delve beneath the headline numbers at the detail surrounding India’s demographic shift. How did India get so big?

As the world's population reaches 8 billion, ... India is a close second with 1.38 billion – but it may feel more packed than China due to its chart-topping population density.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago ...

New Delhi: India has become the most populous country in the world, officially overtaking China. While the national population continues to witness a rapid grow, the country represents a ...

UNITED NATIONS — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a ...