India's population to overtake China by mid-2023, UN estimates

India is poised to overtake China as the world's most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people than its neighbour by the middle of this year, data released on Wednesday by the United Nations showed. India's population by mid-year is estimated at 1.4286 billion, against 1.4257 billion for China - 2.9 million fewer - in the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) "State of World Population Report" for this year. The United States is a distant third, with an estimated population of 340 million as of the end of June.

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overtake：赶上；压倒；替换；超过（超）

estimate：预估；判断（estim- =value 价值，估计的意思）

esteem：尊重

estimable：可尊敬的；可估计的

United Nations Population Fund：联合国人口基金会