More Indians living in cities, a persistently skewed sex ratio and a population that will swell to 1.65 billion in 2060 before starting to drop. These are the conclusions of a new report by the United Nations that was released this week. It added that the world population will rise from 7.7 billion people to 10.9 billion by 2100. 

To arrive at their projections, the authors of the World Population Prospects report studied population censuses and nationally representative sample surveys from 1950 to 2018. 

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