A: According to demographers, India is set to surpass China as the most populous country in the world this month.
B: How many people do the two countries each have?
A: They each have a population of over 1.4 billion. Together, they account for over one third of the world population of 8 billion. Isn’t that amazing?
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B: Well, more people means a greater labor force and market, and the title of the world’s biggest country sounds pretty cool!
A: No wonder the government has encouraged people to have babies.
A: 根據人口統計學家預估，印度本月將超越中國，成為全球人口最多的國家。
B: 這兩個國家有多少人啊？
A: 他們各有超過14億人口，合起來超過全球80億人口的三分之一，很驚人吧？
B: 人口成長能增加勞動力，並擴張市場，世界第一大國的頭銜聽起來也很酷！
A: 難怪政府經常鼓勵大家生小孩。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩〉
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