“There is a need to have greater discussion and awareness on population explosion.” “We have to think if we can do justice to the aspirations of our children,” he said. In 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that a large population was obstructing India’s development. India, however, will have a tougher time than China providing for the bulge, since it is three times smaller in landmass and almost six times behind in GDP.

The United Nations has stated that by the end of this month, India’s population will hit almost 1.43 billion and exceed that of its economic and strategic rival China, long the world’s most populous nation. But they are data points of a growing realization among Indians about the problem posed by their country’s population, which is now the largest in the world. In Indian society, staying childless by choice is still unfathomable for most people. Neither development quite amounts to a mass movement. A minister in the northeast Indian state of Nagaland last year called on Indians to contribute to a sustainable future by refusing to have children and joining his self-declared “singles movement.” “Let us be sensible towards the issues of population growth,” Temjen Imna Along tweeted, “or #StaySingle like me.” Meanwhile, growing numbers of Indian millennials are deciding against having children for environmental reasons.

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