China dismisses India's population growth as insignificant.

Chinese social media users are dismissing and deriding India's expected mid-2023 rise to become the world's most populous nation, with some even happy to see it go. Estimates published by the United Nation's Population Fund say India's population will hit 1.428 billion this year, while China's is set to drop to 1.425 billion people. China's foreign ministry tried to downplay the impact of the population shift, saying that China is more concerned with "talent resource" than raw population statistics.