Yes, India has many challenges ahead, but compared with China, it has shown that slow and steady can win the race.

Yes, India has many challenges ahead, but compared with China, it has shown that slow and steady can win the race.
India’s population is expected to match China’s by the end of April and then surpass it, the UN says.
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Government mouthpiece accuses Western media of using China’s population decline to ‘bad mouth’ country.
In Japan’s ageing society, senior footballers can now show off their skills in a new over-80s division in Tokyo.
Ayodhya is a microcosm of India, where a diverse past has been overrun by ruptured relations between Hindus and Muslims.
UNFPA data estimates India’s population at 1.4286 billion against 1.4257 billion for China by the middle of the year.
The percentage of people aged 60-plus in Kerala has shot up from 5.1 percent to 16.5 percent – the highest among states.
There are more people in India and China than in the next 19 most populated countries in the world combined.
As India is on cusp of surpassing China to become world’s most populous, an estimated 670 million women are left behind.
Top-down policy initiatives fail to account for a society whose attitudes towards women have changed little over time.
Japanese women are having children later in life and worry motherhood will end their careers in a patriarchal society.
No signs of India’s once-in-a-decade census, due in 2021 and delayed due to the pandemic, beginning soon.
China’s population fell last year for the first time since 1961 when the country struggled with a devastating famine.