India has probably already surpassed China in terms of population, and experts expect the growth to continue at least until 2050.
According to the independent World Population Review (WPR), India’s population was 1.417 billion at the end of 2022. Another analytical platform, Macrotrends, estimates India’s population at 1.428 billion.
China’s population declined last year for the first time in more than 60 years – by 850,000 to 1.412 billion people, according to data released Tuesday by China’s State Statistics Office.
India, where half the population is under the age of 30, is expected to be the fastest-growing economy in years to come. To take advantage of rising demographics, the country’s government needs to create millions of jobs, Bloomberg notes.
“What’s needed now is a massive economic support program that would create jobs in a variety of sectors,” said Nomura Holdings Inc. economist Sonal Varma. – And we’re already seeing the foundations for that being laid.”
WPR expects India’s population to continue to grow at least through 2050.
According to the UN, more than half of global population growth between 2022 and 2050 will come from just eight countries: India, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.
Dynamics of changes in population of Ukraine from 1991-2022
Source: Open4Business.com.ua and experts.news
The net outflow from Ukraine, which lasted five weeks and stopped in the week before the Catholic Christmas, was replaced by a net inflow of 33,000 people in the last week of the year, including 29,000 in the first three days, the State Border Service said on Facebook.
According to the Department, the flow on the way out of Ukraine from December 24-30 decreased in comparison with the previous week from 301 thousand to 279 thousand people, while on the way in – from 302 thousand to 312 thousand people.
Polish State Border Service also recorded a net inflow to Ukraine for the last seven days – 35 thousand people compared with 15 thousand people a week earlier.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland reduced from 184 thousand people to 179 thousand, while the return flow from Poland to Ukraine increased from 199 thousand to 214 thousand people.
As a whole from the beginning of the war 8,817 million people arrived in Poland from Ukraine, whereas in the opposite direction there were 7,028 million people.
According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, the number of cars crossing the western border of Ukraine declined from 139 thousand to 123 thousand, while 593 to 428 vehicles with humanitarian cargoes crossed the border.
As reported, since May 10, the flow to enter Ukraine through its western border every day for almost a month exceeded the flow to leave. The net inflow during this time was 188,000 people. In subsequent weeks there was no such unambiguous trend, except for the week of the new academic year, when net inflow was a record 47 thousand people.
In general, statistics showed a gradual return of Ukrainians to their homes: the net influx for the period from May 10 to September 23 was 409 thousand people.
For the first time since May 10, the number of those who left Ukraine in a week exceeded the number of those who entered at the end of September. At that time, the net outflow was 28 thousand people at once, and one of the possible reasons was a reaction to mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then the probable reason for the outflow was massive shelling of the energy infrastructure. In total, since then, the net outflow has been 84,000 people.
According to UNHCR data as of December 27, a total of 16.867 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war (not including the flow of people into the country), of which 8.507 million left for Poland, 2.852 million for Russia (data has not been updated since October 3), Hungary – 1.973 million, Romania – 1.738 million, Slovakia – 1.048 million, Moldova – 732.9 thousand people, Belarus – 16.7 thou
At the same time, according to the UN, from February 28 to December 27, 8.952 million people arrived in Ukraine (excluding Hungary, Russia and Belarus).
Kiev’s permanent population is currently about 3.6 million, including 300,000 refugees from other regions of Ukraine, compared to 3.8 million before the war, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
In an interview with Spiegel published Friday, when asked if he knew how many people were left in Kiev, the mayor answered in the affirmative, referring to statistics on cell phone usage.
“We count how many cell phones are being used. Before the war there were 3.8 million people here, in March less than a million, in July two, two and a half million, now 3.6 million. 300,000 of them are registered refugees from other parts of the country. The city is full,” Klitschko said.
Asked about the restoration of power, water and heating supplies in the Ukrainian capital, he said that water and heating are already back in almost every apartment in Kiev. “The power supply deficit is 50%. Sometimes we turn off electricity in one district to turn it on in another district and vice versa. The situation is complicated, but under control,” the mayor said.
When asked how he assesses Germany’s position on Russia and Ukraine since the war began, the mayor replied, “The biggest mistake of Western politicians was thinking that Putin would be satisfied with the annexation of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. I know Putin’s mentality: he goes as far as we allow him to go.”
Klitschko also said that “the war will end when the last Russian soldier leaves our territory.”
According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the population of Kiev in 2019 was 2 million 966 thousand people. The population of the Kiev agglomeration (Kiev with its suburbs) exceeds 4 million people. Also a significant number of people registered in other localities live permanently in the capital.
Dynamics of changes in population of Ukraine from 1991-2022
SSC of Ukraine
Dynamics of changes in population of Ukraine from 1991-2022
SSC of Ukraine
