https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/publication/un-desa-policy-brief-no-153-india-overtakeschina-as-the-worlds-most-populouscountry/#:~:text=In%20April%202023%2C%20India's%20population,to%20grow%20for%20several% 20decades 4 “The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. — Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Chapter VII, p. 61.
3  2  has been termed as ‘shifting the world’s centre of gravity’ 5 because it could be heralding a tectonic change in India’s role in the global order. Moreover, India’s population is expected to keep growing for the next four decades, peaking at under 1.7 billion in 2063.