{"id":54466,"date":"2023-04-19T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/19\/india-almost-3m-more-people-than-china-june-un-world-most-populous-country"},"modified":"2023-04-19T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:33:05","slug":"indias-population-set-to-overtake-chinas-by-june-un-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54466","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s population set to overtake China\u2019s by June, UN figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN population officials say it is not possible to pinpoint a date because of uncertainty about data<\/p>\n<p>India is expected to overtake China as the world\u2019s most populous country with almost 3 million more people by the middle of this year, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/swop23\/SWOP2023-ENGLISH-230329-web.pdf\">State of World Population 2023 report<\/a> by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates India\u2019s population will be 1.4286 billion by the end of June, compared with China\u2019s 1.4257 billion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/19\/india-almost-3m-more-people-than-china-june-un-world-most-populous-country\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN population officials say it is not possible to pinpoint a date because of uncertainty about dataIndia is expected to overtake China as the world\u2019s most populous country with almost 3 million more people by the middle of this year, according to UN fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,62,706,61,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-population","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54467,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54466\/revisions\/54467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}