Tag: 2023 Population

  • India overtakes China as most populous country in the world

    India overtakes China as most populous country in the world

    The Asian nation of India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous nation in the world this is according to the United Nation’s data published on Wednesday. Bloomberg reports that India’s population stands at 1.4286 billion as against China’s 1.4257 billion people, according to mid-2023 estimates by the UN’s World Population dashboard.

  • 2023 Population Census: NPC launches Call Centre

    National Population Commission (NPC) has launched a call centre for the 2023 Population and Housing Census. The Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Nasir Kwara, said at the launch in Abuja on Tuesday that NPC had intensified preparatory activities for the successful conduct of the first digital census in Nigeria. He said “the launch of this…