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According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by the end of April 2023, containing 17.50 percent of the global population. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] In addition to the Indian population, the Indian overseas diaspora also boasts large numbers, particularly in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf ...
Country / dependency % Asia Asia population Total [1] population % growth Official figure Official date; 1 India 29.9%: 1,428,627,663: 1,428,627,663: 0.8%: 1,388,163,000
Population estimates cannot be considered accurate to more than two decimal digits; for example, the world population for the year 2012 was estimated at 7.02, 7.06, and 7.08 billion by the United States Census Bureau, the Population Reference Bureau, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, respectively, corresponding ...
India's capacity to generate electrical power is 300 gigawatts, of which 42 gigawatts is renewable. [341] The country's usage of coal is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions by India but its renewable energy is competing strongly. [342] India emits about 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few thousand years of recorded history. [1] [2] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [3]
Demographers typically segment the world population into six living generations: GI (born 1901—1926), mature/silents (born 1927—1945), baby boomers (born 1946—1964), generation X (born 1965 ...
I was born in Bengaluru and have lived in J.P. Nagar, a neighborhood in the south of the city since I was seven. Back then, it was a remote area with a lot of trees and gardens.
Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [54] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [55] lived in about 638,000 villages [56] and the remaining 27.8% [55] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [57]