By the end of this week, India will overtake China to become the most populous country in the world, the United Nations has announced.
India's population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 by the end of April, according to the latest figures from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the BBC reported.
The UN Population Fund announced last week that India will have 2.9 million more people than China by the middle of this year.
China's birth rate has recently fallen, and its population shrank last year for the first time since 1961.
China's population could drop below one billion by the end of the century, DESA said.
Last November, the world's population exceeded eight billion.
