India Population 2024 In Billion Impact. India is projected to surpass china as the world's most populous country in 2023, according to the united nations population fund (unfpa). India's population has reached 1,425,775,850 people, surpassing the number of people in mainland china, according to the un's estimates.
It put india’s population at 1.41 billion in 2022. In its 2022 publication, the un estimated that, in its medium scenario, the global population would peak in 2086 at around 10.4 billion people.