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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.
The list consists of columns that can be sorted by clicking on the appropriate title: The names of the states, accompanied by their respective national flags.; The number of military personnel on active duty that are currently serving full-time in their military capacity.
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.
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.
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.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
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 ...