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Country / dependency % Asia Asia population Total [1] population % growth Official figure Official date; 1 India 29.9%: 1,428,627,663: 1,428,627,663: 0.8%: 1,388,163,000
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
China's population rose from approximately 430 million in 1850 to 580 million in 1953, [51] and now stands at over 1.3 billion. The population of the Indian subcontinent, which was about 125 million in 1750, increased to 389 million in 1941; [52] today, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are collectively home to about 1.63 billion people. [53]
The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few thousand years of recorded history. [1] [2] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [3] Lower literacy levels are mostly attributable to poverty.
In 2023, the median age of an Indian was 29.5 years, [13] compared to 39.8 for China and 49.5 for Japan; and, by 2030; India's dependency ratio will be just over 0.4. [14] However, the number of children in India peaked more than a decade ago and is now falling. The number of children under the age of five peaked in 2007, and since then the ...
China's population growth rate is −0.15%, ranking 159th in the world. [citation needed] China conducted its sixth national population census in 2010, [9] [10] and its seventh census was completed in late 2020, with data released in May 2021. [11] China faces the challenge of an aging population due to increased life expectancy and declining ...
The combined population of both China and India is estimated to be over 2.8 billion people as of 2022. Asia's population is projected to grow to 5.25 billion by 2055, or about 54% of projected world population at that time. [1] Population growth in Asia was close to 0.55% p.a. as of 2022, with highly disparate rates.