Pops

While China and India have had to take actions to reduce the size of their population and will remain the largest for some time, the figures are not static. In 2006 Russia and Bangladesh had swapped places (or they've swapped places now, if we're to observe time's arrow) and Vietnam was the runner-up, not the Philippines. In addition, while China remains the crowd(ed) favourite, it is not projected to increase its population at the same rate as India. In fact, it will have less people than it does now.