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The end of the 21st century will see the first plateauing (and eventually shrinking) of world population since the Industrial Revolution. As birth rates fall across the globe, what does this mean for the world’s most populous countries?

To find out, we visualized forecasts for the world’s six largest countries using data from the latest revised version of the UN World Population Prospects 2022.

Projections are based on a “medium fertility scenario”, which assumes countries will converge at a birth rate of 1.85 children per woman, by 2045-2050.

China’s Projected Population Decline

China’s population boom has officially come to an end, with the country reporting two consecutive years of decreases (down 850,000 in 2022, and 2.1 million in 2023).

Year 🇨🇳 China 🇺🇸 U.S. 🇮🇩 Indonesia
1970 812M 199M 114M
1980 975M 222M 146M
1990 1,144M 246M 181M
2000 1,260M 281M 213M
2010 1,344M 310M 242M
2020 1,424M 335M 271M
2030E 1,417M 351M 291M
2040E 1,380M 366M 308M
2050E 1,317M 375M 317M
2060E 1,211M 381M 319M
2070E 1,091M 387M 318M
2075E 1,035M 389M 316M

Note: Figures are rounded.

The country’s population in 2050 is forecasted to be 1.32 billion, which is roughly the same as it was in 2007. The UN believes this demographic downtrend will accelerate as we enter the second half of the century.

What does this mean for the Chinese economy? Many worry that a smaller workforce, coupled with an aging population, will increase healthcare expenditures and hamper economic growth.

India’s Population Boom Continues

Meanwhile, the UN believes that India’s population will peak somewhere in the mid 2060s, just shy of the 1.7 billion mark.

India’s population will not age as quickly as its neighbor. Those over the age of 65 will represent less than one-fifth of the population until 2060, and their share of India’s total number of people and will not approach 30% until 2100.

Year 🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇳🇬 Nigeria
1970 551M 58M 55M
1980 689M 79M 72M
1990 861M 114M 94M
2000 1,050M 152M 121M
2010 1,232M 192M 159M
2020 1,390M 225M 206M
2030E 1,509M 272M 260M
2040E 1,608M 320M 318M
2050E 1,668M 366M 375M
2060E 1,695M 406M 427M
2070E 1,691M 439M 472M
2075E 1,678M 452M 491M

Note: Figures are rounded.

Finally, whether these predictions come true or not will depend on how quickly birth rates fall as the country develops. For example, India’s fertility rate fell from 6.2 in 1950, to 2.0 in 2021 (births per woman).

Source: Visual Capitalist 

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