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Saturday, February 26, 2005
India to overtake China
Don't get excited, I'm talking population. The Telegraph reports that India will be the most populous country in the world by 2030. This landmark event, which will no doubt please our nationalists, was earlier due to take place in 2035. The trend has changed not because Indians are procreating more furiously than before, but because the Chinese population growth rate has altered. The report says:
But isn't that a trend also on the increase in India?
Changes in China’s population trends have been brought about not only because of its strict policies on family planning. “Modernisation and uprooting people from traditional lifestyles into the modern economy” have created “other opportunities that compete with having large families, like consumerism, travel and education” for the Chinese people, said Thomas Buettner, chief of the UN population division’s estimates and projection section.
But isn't that a trend also on the increase in India?
