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#AskAbhijit 163: China, Sri Lanka, Democracy, Israel, Covid, Pakistan, Sphinx, Darwin, Neurology

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The Importance of a Sustainable Population

The population of India, the Indian subcontinent, should be between 300 to 350 million. And we are way past that. When you shut down the birth rate, the total 40-litre rate for a sustained population is 2.1,. If you want the population to start dropping, the TFR should be below 2.1. So, India's population will slowly decline. Even if China forces its population to have a three-child policy, it is still not going to make much of an impact now for the next 100 years or so. Soon, China's population, by 2050, is going to be the average age will be 57 or 58. When your average human being

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