India is set to become the world’s most populous country. It might already be, actually. But we don’t know, because the Indian government couldn’t carry out its detailed 10-year census in 2021 due to the pandemic. What does this mean demographically for the nation, and what does this impact? Milan Vaishnav, a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins The World’s Carol Hills to discuss this.
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