2050年印度人口达到顶峰16亿人 成为世界第一

By 2050, India will take pole position with 1.6 billion people with China in second place at 1.3 billion.

到2050年，印度的人口将达到顶峰也就是16亿人，同时中国以13亿人口排在第二名。

The world's population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world's most populous nation, a French study said on Wednesday.

一项法国研究在星期三表示，2050年世界人口将从现在的71亿上升至97亿，印度将赶上中国并成为世界上人口最多的国家。

A bi-annual report by the French Institute of Demographic Studies (Ined) projected there would be 10 to 11 billion people on the planet by the end of the century。

根据法国人口研究机构的一年两次的报告预计在本世纪末地球的人口将有100亿到110亿。

The projections ran parallel to forecasts by the United Nations, the World Bank and other prominent national institutes.

此次预测的结论与联合国、世界银行等其他国家著名的研究机构所得出的结论一致。

A UN study in June said the global population would swell to 9.6 billion in 2050 and the number of people aged 60 and above would catapult from 841 million now to two billion in 2050 and nearly three billion in 2100.

联合国一项研究称全球人口在2050年将膨胀至96亿人，超过60岁的人口将从现在的8.41亿人激增至20亿，到2100年将接近30亿。

Ined said Africa would be home to a quarter of the world's population in 2050 with 2.5 billion people, more than double the current level of 1.1 billion.

非洲的人口达到25亿并占全球人口的四分之一，是现在人口11亿的两倍。

Gilles Pison, the author of the report, said the prevailing fertility rate in Africa was around 4.8 children per woman — far higher than the global average of 2.5.

该报告的作者称，当时非洲生育率大约是每名妇女4.8个孩子，远高于全球平均水平的2.5个孩子。

The Americas will breach the one-billion mark in 2050 with 1.2 billion inhabitants against 958 million at present.

美洲的人口在2050年将突破10亿将达到12亿，并与现在的居民人口9.58亿形成鲜明的对比。

And Asia's population will increase from 4.3 billion to 5.2 billion in 2050, Ined forecast

预测亚洲的人口在2050年将从现在的43亿增加到52亿。

The world's most populous nations are currently China with 1.3 billion people; followed by India (1.2 billion); the United States (316.2 million); Indonesia (248.5 million) and Brazil (195.5 million)

世界上人口最多的国家，目前中国有13亿人；印度以12亿人紧随其后；美国3.162亿人；印度尼西亚2.485亿人和巴西1.955亿人。

But in 2050, India will take pole position with 1.6 billion people with China in second place at 1.3 billion

但是到2050年，印度的人口将达到顶峰也就是16亿人，同时中国以13亿人口排在第二名。

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, will outstrip the United States with a population of 444 million against a projected 400 million Americans in the middle of the century.

在本世纪中叶，尼日利亚的人口为4.44亿，超过美国的4亿人口并成为非洲地区人口最多的国家。