India Has Finally Overtaken China In Population. Now What?

India became the world’s most populous nation in April. Now what? Bloomberg's Shruti Mahajan explains what the demographic shift means and the concerns around sustaining the population increase.

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[leme]

The main problem in India is our mindset and also corruption that stops us to grow.

[onlyfacts]

I'm already getting fed up with Indian scam calls...

[KJSvitko]

Education and birth control are key to reduce poverty and hunger.
Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible.
Having children begging in the street for food is sad. End child marriage.
Open the work force to women.

[omarnyang]

India has a lot of potential all India needs to do is get rid of bureaucracy and corruption to thrive.

[KJSvitko]

Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.

[ThanhBenMansour]

I worked with lots of Indians when I was living in Dubai. They are a hard-working people. That work ethic will help them survive the coming years, challenging as they may be.

[rollsroyce]

The US, China, India next 30-40 years will be all about geopolitics, rivalry and mutual relations among these 3 countries

[azammerchant]

Sorry sir, India is no where close to China +1.

[moblue]

They will never blame themselves. Every other thing in this planet will be blamed before they admit they are wrong in making more humans

[esselsid]

It means (besides a lot of cool things that i can't explain) more YouTube Subscribers for EVERYONE🤗🤗🤗

[OmerE.C]

Population is a strength
People are the greatest strength of any country. Only ignorant people and corrupt government officials justify economic problems with it

[scienceoffinance]

More people more starvation, half of india lives without wifi and clean water

[ninjapirate]

More population in India means more poverty, and more population in China means more development

[meejinhuang]

It means they are in trouble. They are unable to feed all their people.

[hydrangeadragon]

we need less people and more robots, the earth is choking on the huge amount of people it's forced to support

[Buddhavibez]

No point on having higher populations with the speed of ai tech

[toto-yoyo]

India as most populous nation means, India needs more land for its people, development and infrastructure, so china must give peacefully half of their country land to india 🙏

[jarrodyuki]

china will cut islgirui adn start a war betweee namrthis adn gujaratis.

[joaopedroalbernaz]

It means they gotta keep low sanitation procedures to control the population numbers.

[kingdrew]

Lets rise together motherland India!! Huge Indian population in and outside of India. We are growing more powerful than ever!! ❤😊