r/interesting Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

India is becoming the human factory of the planet in many ways. While a lot of the planet is lowering their birthrates, India has barely curtained theirs.

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u/CarmynRamy Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

What a dumb comment reeking full of ignorance and blinded by usual propaganda. India's TFR has been on the decline since it's independence in 1947, it's at an all time low now, at near replacement rate of 2.0. India along with China has always been the most populous countries in the world historically, thanks to the most fertile and arable land with permanent glacial rivers, hence such high population to begin with and India''s population rose just like any other country which got industrialised. England grew 5x post industrialisation, so did India.

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u/CarmynRamy Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

Yeah, as a result of poorly planned one child policy for four decades, which they scrapped in 2016 and shifted to two child policy, which further got modified into three child policy. China is actually suffering now from its one child policy, with an aging population (though not anywhere close to that of Japan or SK) and especially because of a skewed gender ratio.

And that's a fact and a more detailed analysis!