More people live in China and India than the UN estimates.
The world's population numbers are becoming less and less reliable, as seen by the UN's hasty proclamation that India had overtaken China as the most populated nation. It will stop being a reliable source of information on the global economy if its predictions for other nations are also questioned.
WISCONSIN'S MADISON - According to United Nations estimates, India surpassed China as the world's most populous nation in April. Even while the news generated a lot of media coverage, India's census in 2024 will probably show that the UN's estimates were greatly exaggerated. India's population increased from 1.03 billion in 2001 to 1.21 billion in 2011, according to the results of the most recent census. However, these numbers were given by the UN's 2022 World Population Prospects (WPP) repo...