India Projected to be Most Populous Country in the World by 2028

With recent statistics from the United Nations regarding the world's booming population, it's in no way stopping. And new reports suggest that by as early as 2028, India could top the charts as the world's most highly populated country, with its current population crossing the 1.45 billion mark.

An analysis from "World Population Prospects" said that the world's population could potentially hit 7.2 billion next month, with estimates reaching up to 10.9 billion by 2100 and more than half of the growth situated in Africa. 

However, the United Nations notes that due to fertility advancements, the numbers at the end of the century could climb as high as 16.6 billion or even fall below the 6.8 billion mark.

"Although population growth has slowed for the world as a whole, this report reminds us that some developing countries, especially in Africa, are still growing rapidly," Wu Hongbo, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said while releasing the report, via The Times of India.

Reports show that India is expected to even pass China, as the country may be further decreasing in population.

"While there has been a rapid fall in the average number of children per woman in large developing countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Brazil and South Africa's rapid growth is expected to continue over the next few decades in countries with high levels of fertility such as Nigeria, Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Uganda but also Afghanistan and Timor-Leste, where there are more than five children per woman," said John Wilmoth, the Director of the Population Division in the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs.