{"id":660,"date":"2018-05-17T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=660"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:13","slug":"india-may-be-worlds-most-populated-country-delhi-worlds-most-populous-city-by-2028-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/india-may-be-worlds-most-populated-country-delhi-worlds-most-populous-city-by-2028-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India may be world\u2019s most populated country, Delhi world\u2019s most populous city by 2028: UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is likely to become the world&#8217;s most populated country and New Delhi is expected to be more populated than Tokyo to become the world&#8217;s most populous city by 2018, predicted a United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/en\/news\/population\/2018-world-urbanization-prospects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">report<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, India (1.2 billion) is the second most populated country after China (1.4million). Tokyo leads the list of world&#8217;s most populous cities with 37 million inhabitants, with New Delhi on the second spot with 29 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The report also estimated that three countries &#8212; India, China and Nigeria &#8212; would witness 35 per cent of the expected growth of the world&#8217;s population by halfway into the 21st century. Also, India is projected to add 416 million urban inhabitants by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>John Wilmoth, director of the Population Division said, the urban population growth provides more economic opportunities to the people but insuring their healthcare facilities, sanitation, basic amenities is a challenging task. He also raised concerns about the rapid migration of population to the urban areas, saying it has led to large slum areas especially in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>The report also predicted that the number of megacities (cities with more than 10 million population) could jump to 43 from 31, mostly in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is likely to become the world&#8217;s most populated country and New Delhi is expected to be more populated than Tokyo to become the world&#8217;s most populous city by 2018, predicted a United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) report. Presently, India (1.2 billion) is the second most populated country after China (1.4million). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}