China and India combined currently account for 38 per cent of the world’s population, with 1.43 billion and 1.37 billion people respectively.
However, India is projected to overtake China by 2027, according to the UN’s 2019 World Population Prospects report.
The change is expected to come about as a result of the death rate exceeding the birth rate in China, whose population is projected to fall by 31.4 million between 2019 and 2050.
Meanwhile, India’s population is forecast to increase to 1.5 billion.
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