More than 60% of the world’s population lives in Asia, home to 4.2 billion people and some of the world’sdensest cities. But has this always been the case? This map visualizes the relative population change in each Asian country between 1990 and 2023. Data for this graphic is sourced...
However, population aging is expected to pose significant headwinds to the region's future economic growth. We update and enhance the analysis of Park and Shin (2012) to project the impact of population aging on developing Asia's growth between 2021 and 2050. Our projections indicate that a ...
Between 2015 and 2020, the urban population across Asia grew by 2.16 percent. Urbanization across the region was projected to continue, but at an increasingly lower pace. The urban population was projected to increase by 0.84 percent between 2045 and 2050. ...
In 2023, the median age of the population in Japan was 49.1 years, the highest throughout East Asia.
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According to theWorld Population Clock, the humanpopulationreached 8 billion on November 15th.According to the UN, this milestone represents a celebration of human longevity due to improvements in public health and medicine, but it also comes with warnings about inequality, limited access to food and...
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,...
approximately one-fifth of the world’s population celebrate the Chinese New Year in various forms. Many national leaders visit local Chinese communities and deliver greetings during the festival, demonstrating that as China’s international status and influence rise, the global recognition of Chinese ...
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. ...