• Devotees gather to attend the evening prayers at Har Ki Pauri on the banks of river Ganges in Haridwar, in India's Uttarakhand state, on Sunday. India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country by the end of June, posing huge challenges to a nation with creaking infrastructure and insufficient jobs for millions of young people. | AFP-JIJI
    Devotees gather to attend the evening prayers at Har Ki Pauri on the banks of river Ganges in Haridwar, in India's Uttarakhand state, on Sunday. India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country by the end of June, posing huge challenges to a nation with creaking infrastructure and insufficient jobs for millions of young people. | AFP-JIJI

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United Nations – India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country in the coming week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations said Monday.

“By the end of this month, India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, matching and then surpassing the population of mainland China,” the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs said.

Last week, the U.N.’s annual State of World Population report had said the milestone would come by midyear 2023.

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