Its scheduled 2021 census was postponed by COVID-19.
Demographers used birth and death records, along with other administrative data, to calculate how the population has grown since then. The foundations of both nations' numbers are censuses, or head counts, conducted every decade.Ĭhina's last census was in 2020. "But at least they are based on a relatively solid and consistent methodology." "The reality, of course, is that these estimates are just that," Gietel-Basten said. The demographers then use a statistical technique to infer when India's population has surpassed that of China, according to Stuart Gietel-Basten, a professor at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi.
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The last update to the data used for these calculations for both India and China was July 2022, said Sara Hertog, a U.N. Population Division make estimates based on projections from a wide variety of data sources to get what they believe are the most up-to-date demographic numbers. But the timing has been sped up by a drop in China's fertility rate, with families having fewer children.ĭemographers at the U.N. Not long ago, India wasn't expected to become most populous until later this decade. "It's a crude approximation, a best guess," said Patrick Gerland, chief of the population estimates and projections section at the U.N. But demographers warn that it should be taken with a grain of salt since the numbers are fuzzy and could be revised. Mathematical calculations from a range of surveys, as well as birth and death records, project that India will overtake China sometime in the middle of April. "There is some uncertainty, not only about India's population, but also China's population." "Actually, there is no way we can know exactly when India will surpass China," said Bruno Schoumaker, a demographer at Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Both China and India have more than 1.4 billion people, and combined they make up more than a third of the world's 8 billion people. But they know it's going to happen soon, if it hasn't occurred by now.Ĭhina has had the most people in the world since at least 1950, the year United Nations population data began. Or, perhaps it's happened already?ĭemographers are unsure exactly when India will take the title as the most populous nation in the world because they're relying on estimates to make their best guess.
India will surpass China's population this month.
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