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National Bureau of Statistics of China. 29 Feb 2024. Table 1: Population and Its Composition by the End of 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024. ^ Official estimate "Population Data". Ministry of Home Affairs. 11 Oct 2022. 1. Total Population of Indonesia. Retrieved 13 May 2023. ^ "Indonesia: Cities and Settlements".
List of countries by population (United Nations) 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. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia. Country / dependency. %. total. Asia area. in km 2 (mi 2) 1. Russia.
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.
Asia. Asia (/ ˈeɪʒə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈeɪʃə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1][10][11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [note 2] about 30% of Earth 's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
Rank Country Annual growth (%) 1 Syria 6.39 2 Afghanistan 2.26 3 Timor-Leste 2.10 4 Iraq 1.94 5 Pakistan 1.91 6 Yemen 1.83 7 Oman 1.80 8 Saudi Arabia 1.65 9 Philippines 1.58
China,[i]officially the People's Republic of China(PRC),[j]is a country in East Asia. With a populationexceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous countryafter India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.
The population of South Asia is estimated to be 1.94 billion or about one-fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. [31] In 2022, South Asia had the world's largest populations of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, and Zoroastrians. [32]