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[16] [17] In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%. [ 18 ] In 2023, the median age of an Indian was 29.5 years, [ 19 ] compared to 39.8 for China and 49.5 for Japan; and, by 2030; India's dependency ratio will be just over 0.4. [ 20 ]
Graph of world population over the past 12,000 years . As a general rule, the confidence of estimates on historical world population decreases for the more distant past. Robust population data exist only for the last two or three centuries. Until the late 18th century, few governments had ever performed an accurate census.
This is a list of population milestones by country ... India: 450 B.C., ... Madagascar: 2030 (est.)
Population of the present-day top seven most-populous countries, 1800 to 2100. Future projections are based on the 2024 UN's medium-fertility scenario. Chart created by Our World In Data in 2024. The following is a list of countries by past and projected future population. This assumes that countries stay constant in the unforeseeable future ...
World population growth 1700–2100, 2022 projection World population by age group from 1950 to 2100 (projected) [1] Human population projections are attempts to extrapolate how human populations will change in the future. [2] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future ...
One in every five people in India will be elderly citizens by 2050, UN report says
The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1872. [1]
As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population . [ 2 ] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the ...