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| India pop. may surpass Chinas by 2050 |
| 2010-07-13 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] The rapidly increasing population of India is expected to surpass China's population by 2050, official figures show. China has stringent birth control in force. India doesn't. Over the past 100 years, India has witnessed a five-fold increase in population, and experts say this will hamper the sustainable development of the country, which is already grappling with rampant hunger and poverty. I remember being told to eat all my glop when I was a child. It was told to think of the starving children in India and force it down. Since dumping the Congress Party platform India's been growing into a beacon of prosperity, especially in comparison to Pakistain. Given time, the "rampant hunger and poverty" will become the exception rather than the rule, which I suspect it is now. A recent report by the National Population Stabilization Fund, which is affiliated with the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said that while India's population grew by 1.4 percent over the past five years, China has witnessed only a 0.6 percent rise during the same period. If this trend continues, India will have an additional 371 million people by 2026, the report added. In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen.In 2009, India's total population was 1.198 billion and China's population was 1.345 billion. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I'd expect one of those agitators would be out of the calculation should real hostilities commence, John |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-07-13 21:02 |
| #2 The population of the Indian subcontinent (India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Burma) - the former 'British India' already exceeds that of China |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-07-13 20:20 |
| #1 And the demographic imbalance just keeps getting worse. "Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty-one is a menace to the community." -- Brigham Young Multiply that by 50 million, and you have a problem. Especially if led by a charismatic leader. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan Then, the end result was between 20-50 million dead. Today, that number could be much, much larger. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-13 11:20 |