Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
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India and China, together, are home to over 2.7 billion people. That's as many humans as in the next 20 most populous countries combined, or in the whole other 170 countries in the world. Over the last 300 years, India and China each added more than a billion people to their populations, way more than any other country, but they have actually been growing at about the same rate as the rest of the world. They have a lot more people today because they had a lot more people a few hundred years ago, when the world began its period of modern, and rapid, population growth. It's like comparing a big bank account and a small one. If they both grow at about the same rate over many years, the big one gains a lot more money, simply because it started with more. S...
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India and China, together, are home to over 2.7 billion people. That's as many humans as in the next 20 most populous countries combined, or in the whole other 170 countries in the world. Over the last 300 years, India and China each added more than a billion people to their populations, way more than any other country, but they have actually been growing at about the same rate as the rest of the world. They have a lot more people today because they had a lot more people a few hundred years ago, when the world began its period of modern, and rapid, population growth. It's like comparing a big bank account and a small one. If they both grow at about the same rate over many years, the big one gains a lot more money, simply because it started with more. S...
