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India’s population is projected to peak in the early 2060s at about 1.7 billion and then decline by 12 per cent, but the country will remain the world’s most populous throughout the century, the United Nations has said.
This story is from the New Delhi 13July2024 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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