Do you believe India is already World’s most Populated Nation?

May,26,2017:

China's family planning policies that emerged in the 1970s were criticised.

Chinese people are cheering on their country's ascent sometimes comfort themselves with idea that Asia's other behemoth, India, is years from surpassing the China's population and decades from emerging as a potential economic peer.

But Yi Fuxiang, a Chinese scientist based in the Wisconsin, boldly challenged that assumption this week in Beijing. Yi laid out the arguments that India may already be more populous than China, a view that has created a controversy about whose numbers to believe in forecasting the China's demographic and economic destiny.

"India could become the No. 1 country," stated Yi, a population researcher at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

He further added,"There are many reasons, but the population is most important one".

According to Yi,"China's real population may be 1.29 billion people, about 90 million fewer than Government's estimate of 1.38 billion in 2016", he stated at a meeting at Peking University.

Population Researcher further claimed that there was "telltale inconsistencies" in thr birthrate, the hospital and the school statistics. India's population, on other hand, had grown to 1.33 billion in 2016, according to United Nations.

Yi said that,"President Xi Jinping's decision in 2015 to loosen one-child policy was too late and the piecemeal to arrest a decline in the birthrates".

Some experts have stated that Yi overstated problems in official data, perhaps to fit his longstanding criticism of the China's family planning controls.