The Population Showdown Indias Rise and Chinas Historic Decline

A title that it will likely continue holding over China for the rest of the 21st century going forward as the Indian population continues to grow while China's continues to shrink In less than 40 years from now by 2060 India's population is projected to further accelerate towards the 1.7 billion people mark before finally stabilizing and contracting slightly by the end of the century Meanwhile China's first year of population decline in 2022 heralds only the beginning of a decades-long process in which the Chinese population will historically speaking begin rapidly declining In less than 30 years from now by 2050 China's population is very likely to lose somewhere between 100 and 200 million people from where it's at today And by the end of the century in 2100 China's population may decline from the 1.41 billion it still is today to as few as only 800 million representing what will be nothing less than the quickest population decline of any civilization in human history