At around the same time, India will overtake China as the most populous nation on earth.

India, with its population growing 1.6 percent a year, is expected to overtake China as the most populous nation in the next four decades.

India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030.

By 2030, India will overtake China in population.

With a population likely to overtake China's early in the next century, India has no effective national family-planning program.

India expects to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by the middle of the century.

The trend could see India overtake China (estimated population 1,160 million but rising less rapidly) by the year 2011 as the world's most populous country.

Within 20 years it will in terms of population be the largest country in the world, overtaking China.

And this takes no account of India, which will soon overtake China as the world's most populous nation.

The US made $56bn in clean energy investment last year, overtaking China, which invested $47.4bn.