China-India Brief #220, February 15, 2023 – March 02, 2023, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
by Peter Robertson
The remarkable fact about both China and India’s large populations is that they have meant so little for so long.
By April 2023, India is predicted to overtake China as the world’s most populous country. Nevertheless, history suggests that since the Industrial Revolution, population size has bestowed limited economic or political benefit. Despite being the world’s most populous economy since the mid-eighteenth century, China with over 400 million, it was bullied during the opium wars by the United Kingdom (UK), with an estimated population of just 26 million.
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