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The UN reports that China had already reached a population peak by 2024 while India and several other countries were expected to keep growing through 2054. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: World Population Prospects 2024: UN press release · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:8edbd19e98a173e6d6c3f9260b0993b16ea65578b6c792f8c77bb3791a709c32

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As of 2024, population size has peaked in 63 countries and areas, including China, Germany, Japan and the Russian Federation, and the total population of this group is projected to decline by 14 per cent over the next thirty years. For another 48 countries and areas, including Brazil, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Türkiye and Viet Nam, the population is projected to peak between 2025 and 2054. In the remaining 126 countries, including India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the United States of America, the population is expected to increase through 2054, and potentially to peak in the second half of the century or later.

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