1. INTRODUCTION
Below you can find a list with all the Asian countries by population (2019).
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2. ASIAN COUNTRIES BY POPULATION (2019)
- China ≈ 1,395,261,000
- India ≈ 1,395,261,000
- Indonesia ≈ 266,614,000
- Pakistan ≈ 216,823,000
- Bangladesh ≈ 176,198,000
- Russia ≈ 147,043,000 (*)
- Japan ≈ 126,398,000
- Philippines ≈ 107,041,000
- Vietnam ≈ 94,827,000
- Iran ≈ 82,231,000
- Turkey ≈ 81,821,000 (*)
- Thailand ≈ 69,398,000
- Burma / Myanmar ≈ 54,189,000
- South Korea ≈ 51,843,000
- Iraq ≈ 38,328,000
- Uzbekistan ≈ 32,707,000
- Saudi Arabia / Saudi ≈ 32,659,000
- Malaysia ≈ 32,659,000
- Nepal ≈ 29,419,000
- Yemen ≈ 29,332,000
- Afghanistan ≈ 31,936,000
- North Korea ≈ 25,694,000
- Sri Lanka ≈ 21,789,000
- Kazakhstan ≈ 18,400,000 (*)
- Syria ≈ 18,298,000
- Cambodia ≈ 16,206,000
- Jordan ≈ 10,900,000
- Azerbaijan ≈ 9,984,000 (*)
- United Arab Emirates ≈ 9,654,000
- Tajikistan ≈ 9,129,000
- Israel ≈ 8,969,000
- Laos ≈ 7,018,000
- Kyrgyzstan ≈ 6,379,000
- Lebanon ≈ 6,236,000
- Turkmenistan ≈ 5,902,000
- Singapore ≈ 5,652,000
- Oman ≈ 4,649,000
- Kuwait ≈ 4,244,000
- Georgia ≈ 3,733,000 (*)
- Mongolia ≈ 3,271,000
- Armenia ≈ 2,967,000 (*)
- Qatar ≈ 2,767,000
- Bahrain ≈ 1,608,000
- East Timor ≈ 1,275,000
- Cyprus ≈ 872,000 (*)
- Bhutan ≈ 740,000
- Brunei ≈ 429,000
- Maldives ≈ 356,000
3. NOTES AND CLARIFICATIONS
- Russia has a current population of 147 million inhabitants (approximately 37 fo them in Asia and 110 in Europe).
- The countries of the list marked with an asterisk (*) are considered for geographical or political reasons «Eurasian countries» (states belonging to both Asia and Europe). All of them appear in the list ordered by their total population (and not by the number of inhabitants they have in their European region).
4. MORE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES
- Countries by population (2019).
- Ali Zifan – Wikimedia Commons (2015). Countries and Dependencies by Population in 2014. Avaliable [HERE].
