Demographics of Asia

Graph showing population by continent as a percentage of world population (1750 - 2005)

Map of countries by population density

The continent of Asia covers 29.4% of the Earth's land area and has a population of over 4 billion, accounting for about 56% of the world population. The combined population of both China and India are estimated to be over 2.6 billion people.

Population

Economy

Economically, most of Asia is traditionally considered part of the Second World, with the significant exception of the industrialized First World countries of Israel, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Asian countries in the G-20 major economies include China, Japan, South Korea, India, Russia, Indonesia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Of these, Japan is also in the G8, and additionally China and India in the G8+5. Russia is also a part of G8 from 1997 until 2014, when the original G7 countries voted to suspend the country due to dispute over Crimea.^[1]

The Human Development Index of Asian countries range from Low to Very High category. The table below shows the 10 highest and lowest countries according to their Human Development Index scores based on the 2015 report.^[2]

10 highest HDIs Rank Country HDI in 2014 (published in 2015) 2014 data (published in 2015) Change in rank from previous year Very High human development 1 (2)  Singapore 0.912 2 (3)  Hong Kong 0.910 3 (2)  South Korea 0.898 4 (1)  Israel 0.894 5 (3)  Japan 0.891 -  Taiwan 0.882[3] 6 (1)  Brunei 0.856 7  Cyprus 0.850 7 (1)  Qatar 0.850 9 (5)  Saudi Arabia 0.837 10 (1)  United Arab Emirates 0.835

10 lowest HDIs Rank Country HDI in 2014 (published in 2015) 2014 data (published in 2015) Change in rank from previous year Low human development 1 (2)  Afghanistan 0.465 2 (6)  Yemen 0.498 3 (2)  Burma 0.536 4 (1)  Pakistan 0.538 5    Nepal 0.548 Medium human development 8 (7)  Cambodia 0.555 7  Bangladesh 0.570 8 (2)  Laos 0.575 6 (16)  Syria 0.594 10 (5)  East Timor 0.595

Ethnicities

• Central Asian peoples: Turkic peoples, Iranian peoples, Mongols, Russians
• East Asian peoples: List of Chinese ethnic groups (historical), Sino-Tibetan peoples, Japanese people, Koreans
• Northern Asia: North Asian peoples: Indigenous peoples of Siberia; Finno-Ugric peoples; Tungusic peoples
• South Asian peoples: Ethnic groups of India, Ethnic groups in Pakistan, Dravidians, Indo-Aryans, Munda people
• Southeast Asian peoples: Austronesian peoples, Tai peoples; List of ethnic groups in Cambodia, ethnic groups in Indonesia, List of ethnic groups in Laos, Ethnic groups of the Philippines, List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
• West Asian peoples: Arab people, Jews, Samaritans, Druze, Peoples of the Caucasus (transcontinental), Ethnic minorities in Iran, Ethnic minorities in Iraq; Semites, Iranian peoples, Turkmen, Turks

References

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