India’s Demographic Dividend
India may have already surpassed China as the world’s most populous country. Writer Bloomberg cites the World Population Review (WPR) results. This is a milestone that “requires Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create more jobs,” according to the paper’s authors.
“India, with half its population under the age of 30, will be the world’s fastest growing major economy in the coming years. To maximize the demographic dividend, Modi needs to create jobs for the millions of people entering the workforce each year as the country moves away from farm jobs.
Journalists, “The population of the South Asian country <...> 1.417 billion” at the end of 2022 – “a little more than 5 million” than China’s 1.412 billion.
on the WPR website famousChina and India are the world’s largest countries in terms of population. In the third line of the rating is the United States, with a population of just under 325 million.
The BRICS countries (Brazil (7th), Russia (9th), India, and China), which are generally considered to be the four largest emerging economies expected to dominate the 21st century, are among the top ten most populated countries, and how large are these countries? shows it’s important. population size is for economic growth,” the study says.
At the same time, scientists noticed that the Top 10 also included states that the International Monetary Fund considers to be developing countries that have not “reached a high degree of industrialization relative to their population” and have “generally average or low populations.” standard of living.” Among these countries, Nigeria (6th) with a population of more than 190 million, Bangladesh (8th) with approximately 165 million and Mexico (10th) with 129 million citizens.
“(These countries. – socialbites.ca) shows that the problems affecting developing countries span several continents,” says the article.
WPR scientists also observed that “several of the world’s largest economies have smaller populations, particularly in Europe. The UK, Germany, France and Italy are among the ten largest economies, each with a population of less than 100 million.” According to the study, the number of citizens of these countries ranges from 82 million (Germany) to just under 60 million (Italy).
“Furthermore, a few extremely small countries, such as Monaco, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, all with less than one million inhabitants, play a much larger role in the financial world than their population sizes suggest,” the study said.
In contrast to these countries, the experts concluded that Canada, which is “also a major economic player and one of the largest countries in the world by area”, has a relatively small population for its size – only about 36.5 million inhabitants, experts say.
reduce China’s population
It’s on the eve of data released by China’s State Bureau of Statistics showing that the Chinese population has declined for the first time in 60 years. From the study, it appears that in 2022, 1.411 billion people lived in the country – 850 thousand less than at the end of 2021.
“At the end of 2022, China’s population stood at 1 billion 411 million 750 thousand people (excluding residents of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and foreigners), which is 850 thousand fewer than at the end of 2021.” RIA Novosti quoted the agency’s report.
According to its data, in 2022, 9.56 million people were born and 10.41 million citizens died in China. The report also shows that there are 105 men for every 100 women in China. In total, the male population is 722.06 million people and the female population is 689.69 million people.
At the same time, at the end of 2022, the working-age population aged 16 to 59 was only 875.56 million people – only 62% of the total number of citizens. And there were about 280 million elderly people aged 60 and over in China – 19.8% of the population.
The study also showed that 920.71 million people live in cities – 65.22% of the population and 491.04 million citizens live in rural areas.
Russia population
It seems that WPR did not take into account the inhabitants of Crimea when counting Russian citizens in its study. According to the organization, 144.6 million people live in the Russian Federation.
30 May 2022 Rostat introduced Preliminary figures for the population of Russia according to the All-Russian census from October 15 to November 14, 2021. According to the results of the research, a total of 147.2 million people live in Russia.
“In the period between the two censuses carried out in all Russia from 2010 to 2021, the population of Russia increased by 1.4% and reached 147.2 million people. The number of people living in 28 regions has increased. Sevastopol showed the largest increase in population – the population of the city increased by almost 40%, reaching 548 thousand people. Russia’s most densely populated regions are Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region,” it said.
And a WPR study showed that in 2022 the population of Russia decreased by 0.19%.
On November 15, the United Nations announced that the world’s population had reached 8 billion. According to the UN, the population has increased by a billion in just 12 years.
Source: Gazeta
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