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India has surpassed China to become the world's most populous country with a population of 1,425,782,975 people as of April 14, 2023, while China's population size has decreased to 1,425,748,032 people.
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According to a VNA reporter in New Delhi, MarketWatch analyzed United Nations (UN) data showing that India has surpassed China to become the world's most populous country with a population of 1,425,782,975 people as of April 14, 2023, while China's population size decreased to 1,425,748,032 people.
China has held the position of the world's most populous country since 1950, when the UN began publishing population data.
The projections are based on data from the UN’s July 2022 “World Population Prospects” report and a simple linear equation. However, the UN report estimates that India will surpass China to become the world’s most populous country “around 2023.”
The UN collects population data for more than 200 countries and areas that had at least 1,000 people in the previous year. The data is collected from a variety of sources, depending on how a country estimates its own population. The UN population projections are then made for January 1 and July 1 each year.
The UN has predicted India's population to be 1,422,026,528 on January 1, 2023, and 1,428,627,663 on July 1, 2023, an increase of more than 6.6 million. On January 1, 2023, China was number one with a population of 1,425,849,288, a figure that is expected to drop to 1,425,671,352 in July as China lost a total of nearly 178,000 people.
MarketWatch looked at the rate of change each day to determine the exact moment when India's population surpassed China's. It's a crude, but widely accepted, approach.
UN data shows the difference in population from January 1 to July 1, according to which, India added an average of about 36,470 people per day, while China's population decreased, albeit slowly, by about 983 people per day.
Hourly data analysis on April 14 confirmed that the population gap between the two countries occurred early in the day.
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