In 2023, India overtook China as the world's most populous country. While most regions of the world now have low population growth, populations in Africa are still growing rapidly, fuelled by a young population structure. This provides the region with a potential 'demographic dividend' which ...
January 2023 Region Asia Survey time period 2015 to 2020 Citation formats Citation formatsView options Other statistics on the topic Megacities in the Asia-Pacific region + Demographics Cities with the highest population density globally 2023
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In 2023, the median age of the population in Japan was 49.1 years, the highest throughout East Asia.
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The age group composition of populations varies substantially across continents and within countries, and is linked to levels of development, health status and poverty. The subnational variability in the shape of the population pyramid as well as the res
The number of internet users surged by 100 million in three years. According to statistics from 2022, the total population of the ten ASEAN countries exceeded 675 million. This figure was about 9% of the global population, ranking second globally, only to China and India. ...
The 2023 Asian Economic Integration Report released by the Asian Development Bank showed that China is expected to contribute 64.2 percent to the Asia-Pacific region's economic growth this year. The Asia-Pacific region, with its population accounting for one-third of the world's total population,...
Journalists and staff members work at the international media center of APEC 2023 in San Francisco, the United States, on Nov. 12, 2023. (People's Daily/Chen Yiming/) The Asia-Pacific region accounts for one-third of the world's population, over 60 percent of the world's economic output...
The IMF said that China needs to undertake long-term structural economic reforms in order to maintain long-term economic competitiveness. It also mentioned that the country has to tackle the issue of weakened productivity growth and an aging population. ...