Last year, China’s population shrank for the first time in six decades, a historic turning point expected to begin a long period of decline in civilian numbers that will have profound effects on its economy and the world.
Government data shows that India’s annual population growth has averaged 1.2 percent since 2011, up from 1.7 percent in the previous decade.
A public survey by the UNFPA for the 2023 report found that in India as well as in Brazil, Egypt and Nigeria, the most common opinion was that the population in each country was “too large and the fertility rate too high”, the report said. Has gone .
The agency’s India representative, Andrea Wojnar, said in a statement: “The findings of the Indian survey suggest that concern about population has spread to a large section of the general public.”