Explained: How India and the world are ageing | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: How India and the world are ageing | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: August 30, 2019 12:30:06 pm

Explained: How India and the world are ageing

From UN population report, takeaways: twice as many over-65 persons as under-5s by 2050, rising populations in some countries and falling in others, life expectancy gap between rich & poor countries.

The next 30 years will see the population add 2 billion people to today’s 7.7 billion, and reach 11 billion by the end of the century. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna/Archive)

In the United Nations report that projects India will overtake China as the most populous country by around 2027 (The Indian Express, June 18), other trends and projections include an ageing population and an improving sex ratio, both globally and in India. Some of the key takeaways from ‘World Population Projections 2019: Highlights’: