India projected to surpass China's population in 2023, says UN report

The global population could grow by around 8.5 million by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and 10.4 billion by 2100, the latest UN projections stated

India will outrace China as the most populous nation by 2023, said a UN report that projected the world will have eight billion people by November 2022. 

The global population could grow by around 8.5 million by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and 10.4 billion by 2100, said the report, adding that the world's population is growing at its slowest pace since 1950.

In 2022, the world's two most populous regions were in Asia with 29 per cent of the global population (2.3 billion people) in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (2.1 billion) and 26 per cent in Central and Southern