NEW DELHI — India has dislodged neighboring Asian giant China as the world’s most populous country, but its women are having fewer babies than before, a new United Nations report indicates.
The South Asian nation’s population is estimated to have reached 1.46 billion this year and is expected to increase to 1.7 billion before it begins falling about 40 years from now, says the State of World Population 2025 report published this month by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
