India has officially become the most populous country on Earth, overtaking China with a 17.76% share of the global population, according to Worldometer. China follows closely at 17.72%, while the United States remains a distant third at 4.23%. These figures, visualised in a recent infographic by World Visualized, offer a snapshot of the global population distribution in 2025. With more than 1.45 billion people each, India and China together account for over 35% of the world's population.