India overtakes China as the world’s largest country


Huge rush: There are not only people on the platforms in India.
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The subcontinent now has more than 1.4 billion people. Many of them are young. But it becomes a risk – if the country does not change radically.

IEach time the greats of this world start their marathon conference in Asia, site fences grow in the metropolises. No president should see how the poor live in Bali or Bangkok, Hanoi or Jakarta. Now fences are growing in India. Because as the organizer of the G20, the merger of the major economies, the country wants to present itself as successfully as possible on the world stage under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The sight of the armies of the poor in India spoiled the picture.

Christopher Hein

Trade correspondent for South Asia/Pacific based in Singapore.

Nowadays, the “largest democracy in the world”, the “fastest growing large economy”, acquires another superlative: with a good 1.4 billion inhabitants, India then overtook China and is now also the most populous country in the world. Nobody knows exactly when the baby that will make India the biggest country in the world will be born.

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