mo4ch:>India’s population to surpass China’s in 6 years, nearly 10 billion to tread Earth by 2050 – UN | Mo4ch News

The global population will add some 2 billion in the next three decades, closing in on a 10 billion milestone by 2050, the UN said. India, projected to overtake China, will lead the charge.A newly released report by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and  headlined “The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights” estimates that a mind-boggling 9.7 billion people will inhabit the Earth by 2050, an increase of two billion from now.Nine countries are projected to be responsible for over the half of that surge. Leading the momentum is India, which is said to add some 273 million to its already massive 1.37 billion population and overtake China, whose population is expected to shrink by 31.4 million between 2019 and 2050. China’s population will continue to dwindle and is set to reach 1.1 billion by 2100, while India is expected to have 1.4 billion inhabitants by that time.Runner-up Nigeria is not lagging far behind and is expected to add so…