BY DEBAJYOTI CHAKRABORTY
NEW DELHI, 19 APRIL 2023:
According to United Nations Populations Fund (UNPF), the population of India is 1.4286 billion, thus surpassing the Peoples Republic of China and has become the world’s most populous country.
By the middle this year, the population of India is expected to around 2.9 million more than that of Peoples Repiblic of China.
The population of China is 1.4257 billion. And it is decreasing every year.
Together India and China each contributes now about 18 percent of the total world population.
While Africa is the fastest growing continent in the world, the population of Europe in shrinking.
United States of America (USA) is a distant third and way behind with a population of 340 million people.
Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Phillipines and Nigeria will contribute half of the world’s population increase by 2050.
Life expectancy for males in India are 71 years while the life expectancy of females are 74 years. 68% of India’s population are in the age group of 15 to 64 years.
The world in 2100 –
The world population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion by 2100.
Africa: fastest growing continent-
More than half of global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa. Africa has the highest rate of population growth among major areas. The population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2050.
Shrinking population in Europe:
In sharp contrast, the populations of 61 countries or areas in the world are expected to decrease by 2050, of which 26 may see a reduction of at least ten per cent. Several countries are expected to see their populations decline by more than 15 per cent by 2050, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine.
UN Population Fund:
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) started operations in 1969 to assume a leading role within the UN system in promoting population programmes, based on the human right of individuals and couples to freely determine the size of their families. At the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), its mandate was fleshed out in greater detail, to give more emphasis to the gender and human rights dimensions of population issues, and UNFPA was given the lead role in helping countries carry out the Conference’s Programme of Action. UNFPA now works in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, human rights and gender equality, population and development and has programmes for youth.
World Population Day is observed annually on 11 July. It marks the date, in 1987, when the world’s population hit the 5 billion mark.
This is for the first time in human history that every country is not growing bigger.The world population in fact is rapidly reordering itself. This is the largest ever world population.
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