Indian claims for permanent membership in the US Security Council can be strengthened if they exceed China and become the most populous countries in the world in 2023, according to the top US population officials.Reports on the prospect of the 2022 world population released on Monday said that India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world next year. According to the report, the Indian population reached 1,412 billion in 2022, compared to 1,426 billion China.
India, which will surpass China as the most populous country in the world in 2023, is projected to have a population of 1,668 billion in 2050, far in front of 1,317 billion Chinese people in the middle of this century.Reports compiled by the United Nations Department of Economy and Social Affairs, Population Division, noted that the global population is projected to reach 8 billion on November 15, 2022. The global population has grown at the latest level since 1950, after falling under one percent in 2020.
The latest projections by the United Nations show that the world population can grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050. This is projected to reach its peak of around 10.4 billion people during the 2080s and remain at that level up to 2100 .
Director of the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economy and Social Affairs (Village) John Wilmoth said on Monday that the emergence of India as a country with the largest population could lead to “certain claims about things -hal”.”What is the importance of being the largest population in the world? I think you have certain claims about various things. I wonder what will happen in terms of discussions about … the role of the US and the role of five permanent security council members.
“If India becomes the biggest country, they might think that it gives them a claim that they must be part of … they have claimed that they must be part of the group (permanent members of the Security Council). But, you know, it might strengthen their claims, “Wilmoth said when responding to questions about the impact of India that surpassed China during a press conference at the launch of the report.
India has been at the forefront of efforts for years to reform the security council which says it deserves a place as a permanent member of the council, which in its current form does not represent the geo-political reality of the 21st century.Wilmoth said that in terms of development implications, it is important to note that the reduction in Chinese population size occurs in a more drastic way.
The state “implemented a policy in the 1970s and 80s which was very effective in reducing the level of fertility and which caused a very sharp population change, it slowed growth very quickly.It also reverses the distribution of age and now they are concerned in China about the weight of the age – the nature of age distribution. The more older people relative to other populations, US officials said.”India has a much smoother transition that decreases the level of fertility more slowly. That means there is no equal discontinuity in historical patterns and there is no aging population that is very fast, even though aging will come there too.
“But that will be a more gradual process. And in some things that might be better to manage, a better condition, in the long run for the economy to have a more gradual demographic change than a very rapid change that occurs in China, “Wilmoth said.Patrick Gerland, Head, Estimated Population and Projection Section, Population Division, said China could conduct a census in 2020 and India plans to conduct a census in 2021 but was postponed for pandemic.”So once India can do the next census, and new information will be available, we will be able to use this information to re -judge,” said Mr. Gerland.
The report said that the two most populous regions in the world in 2022 were East and Southeast Asia, with 2.3 billion people, representing 29% of the global and Central and South Asian populations, with 2.1 billion, representing 26% of the total world population.China and India contributed the largest population in the region, with more than 1.4 billion in 2022.
More than half the increase in the global population projected until 2050 will be concentrated in only eight countries from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.”Different population growth rates among the largest countries in the world will change their ranking based on size: for example, India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world in 2023,” the report said.
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