Imagine a world in which the world’s most populous country is a democracy. Picture a time when an aging China has lost its place at the top, replaced by a young and dynamic India.
That moment is here. And it marks a shift that is only now beginning and could have major repercussions across the globe.
The United Nations Population Fund announced Wednesday that, according to its calculations, India’s 1.4 billion have already surpassed mainland China’s population, and will exceed all of China’s – including Hong Kong’s population – by the middle of this year.
We’ve all grown up thinking of China as the world’s most populous country.… Seguir leyendo »
Todo está dado para que la India termine un año tumultuoso con una nota festiva: celebra 75 años de independencia y el inicio de su presidencia del G20. Pero otro hito es inminente. Expertos de Naciones Unidas estiman que el 14 de abril de 2023, la India oficialmente superará a China y se convertirá en el país más poblado del mundo.
Éste no necesariamente es motivo de celebración. China ocupa aproximadamente 9,6 millones de kilómetros cuadrados, comparado con los 3,3 millones de kilómetros cuadrados de la India, lo que hace que la densidad de población de la India sea casi tres veces mayor que la de China.… Seguir leyendo »
On July 30, four million residents of the Indian state of Assam were effectively stripped of their nationality after their names were excluded from the recently formed National Register of Citizens.
Indian authorities claim to have initiated and executed the process to identify illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, which shares several hundred miles of its border with Assam, but it has exacerbated fears of a witch hunt against the Bengali-origin Muslim minority in the state.
Assam is the most populous of India’s northeastern states. As part of a labyrinthine bureaucratic exercise, 32.9 million people and 65 million documents were screened over five years at a cost of $178 million to ascertain which residents of Assam are citizens.… Seguir leyendo »
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