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Population of India forecast to overtake China's by 2030

By Mark Turner at the United Nations

Published: February 25 2005 02:00 | Last updated: February 25 2005 02:00

India's population will overtake that of China before 2030, five years earlier than previously forecast, a new UN population report predicts.

The United Nations' latest "World Population Prospects", released yesterday in New York, estimates there will be 1,395m people in India by 2025, and 1,593m in 2050. Meanwhile, China's population will grow to 1,441m by 2025, before slipping to 1,392m in 2050.

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