The UN’s World Population Prospect: The 2012 revision report, launched in New York on Thursday, said much of the overall increase through 2050 would take place in high-fertility countries, including Asian nations with large populations such as India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines.

India’s population is expected to overtake China’s around 2028, when both countries will have a populations of around 1.45 billion, the report stated. India’s assumption of the title as the world’s most populous country has been predicted many times in the past years.