India is the most populous country in the world. Before this, China used to be the most populous country. According to the data of the United Nations, the population of India has reached 142.86 crores, while the population of China is 142.57 crores. But have you ever wondered that if India had not been divided in 1947 and Pakistan was in India today, what would have been the population of India today? Today we will tell you about this.
Partition of India
India and Pakistan were divided along with the independence of the country. Today India has left China behind in terms of population. But the question is that if Pakistan and Bangladesh were a part of undivided India, then what would have been the population of India today and what would have been the total population of Muslims.
population of india
Today the population of India is 142.86 crores. According to the 2023 census, the total population of Pakistan is 24 crores (2,40,458,089). Apart from this, the total population of Bangladesh is 17 crores. Apart from this, 24 crore Muslims live in Pakistan, 20 crore in India and 15 crore in Bangladesh. If the country had not been divided, then at this time India would have had a Muslim population of 59 crores. This figure would have left Indonesia far behind. Because right now Indonesia is the country with the highest Muslim population in the world with 24.25 crore people.
India would have been the 15th largest country in the world with a sea area
In India, from Gujarat to West Bengal, our border touches the sea. In such a situation, apart from the coastal border, the country also has a maritime border, which is called Exclusive Economic Zone i.e. EEZ. The country has rights over the water of this area and all the minerals found in it.
India has maritime boundaries in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. India’s EEZ is 23.05 lakh square km. Pakistan has an EEZ area of 2.90 lakh square km in the Arabian Sea and Bangladesh has an EEZ area of 1.19 lakh square km in the Bay of Bengal.
If Pakistan and Bangladesh were in India, we would have the 15th largest EEZ in the world. Its area would be 27.13 lakh square km and India would also have natural gas reserves in Bangladesh’s maritime border. Apart from this, many heavy minerals, substances like zircon, rutile, magnetite, monazite are also found here. These are used in making iron-steel industry, textiles, plastics, aircraft, engines, spacecraft. Let us tell you that fish farming is 4% of Bangladesh’s GDP, it is the second largest industry in terms of export.
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