GodlessBastard
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According to Population Reference Bureau by 2050 India will have 17.4 billion people and China will have 14.3 billion, which makes Chinese population roughly 80% that of India.
http://www.prb.org/pdf10/10wpds_eng.pdf
So what I said still stands. By 2050 India may have a bigger economy but China will have a lot less people living in a far larger country.
I think you put the decimal points in the wrong spot for the population projections.
Also, it is misleading to think China is better off than India because it has more land. Most of China's land is wasteland, especially in the West. If I remember correctly, over half of India's land is arable, compared to only 10% of China's land. This means that is terms of population per sq. km of arable land, China has a higher population density than India.
This statistic is also called "real population density". Take a look:
List of countries by real population density (based on food growing capacity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India has more arable land than China. Thus, we are able to support a larger population.