Weeks before the observance of World Population Day on July 11 came reports saying that India is overtaking China in population this year.
China has been documented as the world’s most populous country since 1950, or almost 75 years, since the United Nations started its annual global population rankings.
The report said that while China remained early this year as having the largest population in the world – at 1.425 billion with India just behind with 1.4 billion – the figures shifted sometime in April when figures in the latter rose to 1.429 billion.
