India: The next global superpower?
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The Times
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
India will soon surpass China as the most populous country in the world. As China’s population slumps, could India’s population rise spell a new chapter in the country’s economic growth, and could it help make it a global superpower?
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| 0:00.0 | India is booming with one of the fastest growing economies in the world. |
| 0:14.1 | Let's not forget this is one of the bright spots in the global economy right now, such |
| 0:18.0 | a high growth rate. |
| 0:22.0 | India's economy has already overtaken the UK's to become the 5th largest in the world, but |
| 0:28.6 | the country is also growing in other ways. |
| 0:32.6 | India has overtaken China as the world's most populous nation, and with a population |
| 0:36.8 | of 1.428 billion people, the South Asian nation is home to nearly a 5th of humanity. |
| 0:44.8 | While China worried about population growth in the 1980s and brought in its one child |
| 0:50.5 | policy, now four decades later, it's much more alarm to find that its population is |
| 0:57.6 | in decline. |
| 0:59.4 | While just across the border, their old rival, India, is about to become the most populous |
| 1:05.5 | nation in the world. |
| 1:09.3 | So could all of that extra manpower make India their biggest economic rival and the next |
| 1:16.2 | global superpower? |
| 1:18.3 | As many population experts say, whether in this population is healthy and educated or |
| 1:24.2 | not, that will determine whether this huge population is a demographic dividend or a |
| 1:30.0 | demographic disaster. |
| 1:36.2 | Can India overtake China in the size of its economy as well as its population? |
| 1:42.4 | And how might its rapid growth change India's place in the world? |
| 1:48.5 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm Manvin Rano, today will India overtake China. |
| 2:12.7 | To understand India's population explosion, there's no better place to start than the |
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