By 2050: China's Population v/s India's Population

China, July 10: The world's most population country. The second largest economy. Now there is an agitation that the elderly people are growing in the country. Experts strongly oppose the controversial family planning system in China.

In the same way, by 2050, China's population would be 65 percent of India's population. China eliminated the provision of a newborn child, intended to control the population in 2016. But the growing number of elderly people in the country is concerned.

Experts say that this will affect the country's economy. By 2016, the total number of people over 60 years is 23 crores. That's 16.7 percent of the total population. According to international standards, if ten percent of the total population and more than 60 years of age are identified as aging society.

In China, the fertility rate is declining heavily. Older people are growing. China needs to make huge changes in its social structure.

"China has entered a low fertility trap and that its aging population will impede economic development. China should make tremendous reforms to its social structure, and the first step is to end the policy," Yi Fuxian, a US-based researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told state-run Global Times.

If China maintains its fertility rate of 1.2 by 2050 and 2100, its population would be 65 percent and 32 percent, respectively, of India's population, Yi said.

China introduced its one-child family planning policy in 1979 and replaced it with the two-child policy in January 2016

Experts estimate that China's population has dropped to 40 crore due to the same provision. He said that China has been forced to carry out this policy. Even though this policy has not been implemented in India, the fertility rate of 5.6 in 1970 has dropped to 2.18 by 2017.

He said that China was left behind in the Human Development Index. It is reported that China hopes to put a full stop on family planning policy.