Chinese people say they don't care that India is taking over as the world's most populous country: 'No one even wants 1st place'

• Weibo users are dismissing the prediction that India's population will overtake China's this year.
• India's population is set to hit 1.428 billion, while China's drops to 1.425 billion, per the UN.
• "No one even wants first place for this," one user wrote on the social media platform.

Chinese social media users this week dismissed and derided India's expected mid-2023 rise to become the world's most populous nation.