India's population may be 1 bn

New Delhi - This month, next month, or next May - the world's demographers are uncertain about the date - India's population …

New Delhi - This month, next month, or next May - the world's demographers are uncertain about the date - India's population will touch 1 billion, and it will overtake China as the most populous country on earth before the middle of the next century.

The dates of such a landmark are notional because India's population is growing faster than the demographers can count it: 15.5 million babies born every year, or one every two seconds.

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