Spell-binding animated charts track how quickly world's most populated countries will grow or shrink by 2100 - with number of citizens living in China expected to HALVE by end of century

China's organization will much than halve by 2100, melodramatic UN forecasts show.

Startling projections propose nan economical superpower will beryllium location to 634million group by nan extremity of nan century, compared to 1.42billion now. 

China's unfolding organization 'disaster' has sparked panic worldwide, pinch overmuch of nan world limited connected its immense manufacturing output.

Birth rates person plunged to their lowest level connected record, fuelled by its decades agelong one-child policy. Beijing's efforts successful caller years to promote women to person much children person failed.

MailOnline has coming created a spellbinding floor plan showcasing nan UN's projections for each country's organization betwixt now and 2100.

As good arsenic capturing China's decline, it showcases really African nations specified arsenic nan Democratic Republic of nan Congo and Angola are some projected to quadruple successful size.

Our mesmerising time-lapse chart besides reveals really each country's organization has changed since 1950, including nan nonstop infinitesimal India overtook China to declare nan title of world's astir populated state (1.44b).

Between nan two, they are location to more than a 3rd of nan world.

Forecasts from nan UN show that while India and China will apt support nan apical spots for nan adjacent 76 years, nan latter's organization is is group to plummet to beneath 1billion by nan precocious 2060s.

This is nan balanced of nan Asian federation losing much than nan existent organization of nan US successful astir 35 years.

By 2100 China is forecast to person mislaid much 55 per cent – astir 790m – of its existent population, leaving it opinionated astatine astir 630m.

Last twelvemonth marked nan 2nd successful a statement that China's organization fell, owed to record-low commencement rates fuelled by nan one-child argumentation which had been successful spot for decades.

While nan limit was raised to 2 successful 2015, and scrapped wholly successful 2021, Beijing has grounded to promote women to person much children.

Experts person besides blamed nan rising costs of childcare and debased wages for nan nonaccomplishment to reverse nan trend, contempt extending maternity leave, offering taxation breaks nan large families and a clamp-down connected 'non-medical' abortions — a move experts antecedently warned could endanger women's lives.

President Xi Jinping's eventual lifting of Covid restrictions was besides partially blamed for decease rates jumping to a 50-year high.

India, connected nan different hand, will spot its organization turn until nan early 2060s, reaching a highest of astir 1.7b, earlier starting to gradually autumn (1.5b successful 2100).

Within nan adjacent 2 decades, Pakistan will overtake nan US and Indonesia to go nan world's third-most populated country.

Its organization is forecast to deed 385m successful 2053, compared to nan US' 383m. By 2100, Pakistan will beryllium location to 511m people.

The UK, which presently ranks 21st pinch 67m, is forecast to driblet from nan apical 25 database successful nan precocious 2040s, being replaced by nations specified arsenic Kenya, Afghanistan and Sudan.

However, nan organization is still forecast to scope 74million by 2100, ranking 61st.

The US, meanwhile, will driblet from 3rd to sixth place, pinch a organization of 421m by nan move of nan century

Falling fertility rates are down nan 'underpopulation' crisis, which Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has been earnestly concerned about.

He has warned successful 2017 that nan organization is 'accelerating towards illness but fewer look to announcement aliases care' and successful 2021 that civilisation would 'crumble' if group did not person much children.

Fertility rates are forecast to proceed to autumn successful developed nations specified arsenic Britain and nan US, and will unit them to trust much truthful connected migration to support an ageing population.

Musk has claimed that Japan – which is seeing its organization shrink – could 'flat-out disappear' if its debased commencement rates proceed to diminution and that Italy 'will person nary people' if nan existent trends persist.

All nan apical 10 countries group to spot nan highest percent organization maturation are successful sub-Saharan Africa, which will lend astir 1billion to nan organization maturation betwixt them.

The slightest populated countries successful nan world – galore of which are land nations – are forecast to stay reasonably stagnant.

The mini Polynesian land of Niue has a organization of little than 2,000 arsenic of 2023, nan slightest of immoderate federation successful nan world.

The UN forecasts Niue's organization will turn to a small little than 2,400 by 2100.