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India to become world's most populous by 2050
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by Sanjay Jha | November 13, 2008 at 02:59 am
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India's population will continue to grow and is likely to become the highest in the world by 2050.
At the same time, European countries including Poland, Germany, Portugal and Italy will witness negative growth in population during this period.
In its State of the World Population Report 2008, UNFPA estimated the Indian population will even surpass China. UNFPA also stressed on the need for integrated actions involving NGOs, Human Rights Groups and local governance to check the female foeticide practice.
India will become the most populous country overtaking China by 2050, the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has projected. India, whose population is growing by 1.5 per cent, will have 165.8 crore people against China’s 140.8 crore by that year, the ‘State of World Population 2008’ report of UNFPA released today said.
The total fertility rate in India is 2.78 per cent while it is 1.73 in China, where the population is growing by 0.6 per cent, the report said.
Pakistan, whose population is 16.7 crore now, will have 29.2 crore by 2050. However, Sri Lanka would witness negative growth during this period. Its present population of 1.94 crore would come down to 1.87 crore then, it said.
Afghanistan, where the population is growing at 3.9 per cent now, will witness nearly three fold increase in its population, projected at 7.9 crore by 2050 from the current 2.8 crore, the report said.
Similarly, the population of Bangladesh will increase from 16.1 crore to 25.4 crore during this period. Nepal’s population will go up to 5.2 crore from the 2.8 crore now.
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at 03:05 on November 13th, 2008
Interesting News, Germany has been debating to revise its immigration Law to allow more people from India and China to be able to become permanent residence, The same sort of debate is taking place in Japan for the past two Years.
at 04:38 on November 13th, 2008
Good story, Sanjay. Thanks for posting.
at 06:02 on November 13th, 2008
Important story, Sanjay! Lester Brown (who I keepo quoting!) says that we need to tackle the population issuye head on and seriously. He says that two countries have dealt with it successfully and stabilised their populations - Iran (of all places) and Thailand. It's something that many people shy away from but we cannot keep expanding the world';s population and expect that somehow we will all survive. It just is not at fair on people with low bargaining power!
at 06:04 on November 13th, 2008
PS: I dont understand the word 'crore'!
at 10:17 on November 13th, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore
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Sanjay Jhaat 10:44 on November 13th, 2008
Hi, Thanks very much for your comments. My apologies. I have refered to a news item sourced from Indian media where Crore is very prevalent. Crore is basically 10 million.