India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population.
According to estimates from the United Nations (UN), India has overtaken China as the country with the largest population in the world, with a population of 1,425,775,850 at the end of April 2023.
Crude birth rate trends in India (per 1000 people, national average)
Infant mortality rate trends in India (per 1000 births, under age 1, national average)
Tripuri children preparing for a dance performance. The Tripuris are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group.
Image: Skyscrapers connaught place New Delhi
In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.
A world population clock in August 2022 at Eureka! in Halifax, West Yorkshire