Jocke1 wrote:Will China ever lose their number one spot in the list of countries by population?
And will Russia move past Bangladesh in the not so distant future?
1 China ----------- 1,360,720,000
2 India ------------ 1,240,380,000
3 United States -- 317,541,000
4 Indonesia ------ 249,866,000
5 Brazil ---------- 201,032,714
6 Pakistan ------ 185,649,000
7 Nigeria -------- 173,615,000
8 Bangladesh --- 152,518,015
9 Russia -------- 143,657,134
10 Japan ------- 127,220,000
82 Somalia ---- 10,496,000
Well, this is a rather bizarre question - we usually do not deal with questions on national demographics here.
Since you ask, there are studies that suggest that India will become the most populous nation on earth as a consequence of rapidly slowing population growth rates in China that are linked to the "one child" policy of China and sharply declining infant mortality rates in India. The indication is that the crossover from China to India being the most populous nation will be somewhere between 2020 and 2030.
As for Russia and Bangladesh, it is unlikely that Russia will surpass Bangladesh in terms of population any time soon - it is worth remembering that the population of Russia was in decline until 2009 and is now only slowly beginning to grow. As recently as 2010 though, there have been UN studies that considered it plausible that the population of Russia would continue declining over the foreseeable future though due to high adult male mortality rates (much of which is associated with chronic alcohol abuse).
As for Bangladesh, although the population growth rate has been sharply slowing, it is still markedly higher than in Russia and so it is likely that the population of Bangladesh will continue to grow over the foreseeable future.
