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Eastern and South-Eastern Asia population

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia population now

2,353,187,073

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 2,350,145,730

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 2.35300 billion
Median age: 39.4
Aged 65+: 14.2%

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male female projection · one cell = 500,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

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AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia in numbers

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia had 2,350,145,730 people in mid-2023, 29.0% of the world's people. That is 2.8 times its 1950 population of 836 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2028 at 2.35 billion, then falling to 1.45 billion by 2100.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2028 and staying above them from then on.

The median age was 22.1 in 1950 and 38.0 in 2023; the projection has 54.4 in 2100. 13.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 36.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2027 at 1.62 billion.

Population, mid-2023: 2,350,145,730
Share of the world, 2023: 29.0%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.08% · +1,982,417 people
Births, 2023: 20,722,138
Deaths, 2023: 19,103,565
Net migration, 2023: −472,622
Children per woman, 2023: 1.33
Median age, 2023: 38.0 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.8 years
Population, mid-1950: 836,464,176
Projected, mid-2050: 2,241,608,361
Projected, mid-2100: 1,448,796,864

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, 1950–2100

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	829,019,819	33,449,850	18,713,273	5.54	43.1
1951	estimate	843,908,534	33,047,701	18,096,559	5.38	44.4
1952	estimate	859,038,534	36,686,962	17,511,318	5.88	46.1
1953	estimate	878,433,044	35,470,521	17,252,409	5.58	46.9
1954	estimate	896,912,401	37,093,124	16,889,524	5.73	47.9
1955	estimate	917,382,975	37,584,552	16,810,754	5.70	48.6
1956	estimate	938,432,421	36,434,024	16,600,921	5.43	49.1
1957	estimate	958,527,030	39,500,424	16,641,000	5.79	49.7
1958	estimate	981,642,630	37,084,406	16,393,140	5.35	50.2
1959	estimate	1,002,431,506	33,279,535	20,588,370	4.73	44.3
1960	estimate	1,015,250,661	32,510,408	24,212,541	4.56	39.6
1961	estimate	1,023,424,388	30,045,333	19,398,105	4.16	45.0
1962	estimate	1,033,665,666	40,355,868	15,075,167	5.53	52.4
1963	estimate	1,058,472,807	47,233,746	15,647,155	6.40	53.0
1964	estimate	1,089,558,685	43,992,951	15,569,799	5.87	53.7
1965	estimate	1,117,767,390	44,289,001	15,962,814	5.83	53.5
1966	estimate	1,145,742,513	43,116,535	15,380,646	5.57	54.6
1967	estimate	1,173,277,041	41,962,370	14,862,585	5.31	55.6
1968	estimate	1,200,132,507	46,103,919	14,954,780	5.72	56.1
1969	estimate	1,231,432,509	45,486,496	14,753,487	5.49	56.9
1970	estimate	1,262,323,997	46,209,867	14,607,448	5.42	57.6
1971	estimate	1,293,704,881	44,588,703	14,234,498	5.06	58.4
1972	estimate	1,323,680,388	43,682,935	14,025,669	4.80	59.0
1973	estimate	1,352,935,073	42,807,458	13,631,560	4.54	59.8
1974	estimate	1,381,590,183	40,570,570	13,364,235	4.14	60.4
1975	estimate	1,408,320,145	37,957,794	13,321,038	3.72	60.6
1976	estimate	1,432,576,599	36,795,759	13,237,186	3.47	60.9
1977	estimate	1,455,846,881	35,049,486	12,735,371	3.19	61.9
1978	estimate	1,478,021,313	35,095,285	12,583,479	3.09	62.5
1979	estimate	1,500,289,869	36,179,170	12,121,483	3.09	63.6
1980	estimate	1,523,883,237	36,802,973	12,148,194	3.05	64.1
1981	estimate	1,548,131,802	37,725,499	12,116,067	3.05	64.6
1982	estimate	1,573,425,988	39,700,014	12,170,400	3.13	65.1
1983	estimate	1,600,729,297	37,054,646	12,113,803	2.83	65.5
1984	estimate	1,625,726,084	38,235,482	12,116,332	2.83	66.0
1985	estimate	1,651,755,406	39,209,600	12,184,727	2.81	66.4
1986	estimate	1,678,678,529	40,867,201	12,288,338	2.83	66.8
1987	estimate	1,707,305,091	42,296,750	12,373,256	2.83	67.2
1988	estimate	1,737,401,884	41,249,356	12,444,098	2.67	67.5
1989	estimate	1,766,195,749	42,036,273	12,510,626	2.64	67.9
1990	estimate	1,795,562,795	42,904,713	12,710,424	2.62	68.1
1991	estimate	1,826,113,714	37,650,174	12,544,066	2.24	68.5
1992	estimate	1,850,379,308	35,985,730	12,459,853	2.11	69.0
1993	estimate	1,874,076,440	35,110,799	12,430,550	2.03	69.4
1994	estimate	1,896,353,257	34,444,354	12,506,399	1.98	69.7
1995	estimate	1,917,860,292	33,831,109	12,605,246	1.93	69.9
1996	estimate	1,939,038,931	33,062,601	12,586,013	1.89	70.4
1997	estimate	1,959,790,880	32,290,495	12,644,989	1.85	70.7
1998	estimate	1,979,782,426	31,569,587	12,752,417	1.82	71.1
1999	estimate	1,999,042,141	31,059,707	12,937,043	1.80	71.3
2000	estimate	2,016,869,167	31,696,802	13,055,086	1.85	71.7
2001	estimate	2,035,321,903	30,661,380	13,150,697	1.80	72.1
2002	estimate	2,052,371,402	30,334,425	13,289,191	1.79	72.4
2003	estimate	2,068,233,361	30,092,311	13,403,588	1.78	72.8
2004	estimate	2,083,799,157	30,282,373	13,770,906	1.79	72.8
2005	estimate	2,099,091,884	30,372,622	13,804,043	1.80	73.4
2006	estimate	2,115,173,971	30,772,209	14,005,196	1.82	73.7
2007	estimate	2,131,368,719	31,250,929	14,153,248	1.84	74.0
2008	estimate	2,148,033,844	31,786,500	14,660,047	1.87	73.9
2009	estimate	2,164,782,713	32,115,072	14,609,571	1.88	74.5
2010	estimate	2,182,187,700	32,048,401	14,811,537	1.87	74.8
2011	estimate	2,199,491,767	32,148,415	15,106,830	1.87	75.0
2012	estimate	2,216,361,252	33,627,920	15,294,882	1.96	75.3
2013	estimate	2,235,256,740	32,485,680	15,516,845	1.89	75.5
2014	estimate	2,252,313,571	32,848,988	15,739,779	1.92	75.8
2015	estimate	2,269,325,014	31,495,950	15,968,532	1.85	76.0
2016	estimate	2,284,353,780	31,969,199	16,242,175	1.89	76.2
2017	estimate	2,300,410,042	31,537,149	16,697,875	1.88	76.3
2018	estimate	2,315,562,608	28,248,071	16,753,846	1.71	76.6
2019	estimate	2,327,269,103	27,259,489	17,035,891	1.66	76.8
2020	estimate	2,337,314,584	24,218,744	17,696,380	1.50	76.7
2021	estimate	2,343,728,363	22,556,504	18,928,205	1.41	76.3
2022	estimate	2,346,753,893	21,417,501	18,550,582	1.36	76.8
2023	estimate	2,349,572,733	20,722,138	19,103,565	1.33	76.8
2024	estimate	2,350,718,727	20,580,712	19,228,802	1.34	77.0
2025	projection	2,351,810,939	20,386,480	19,395,497	1.35	77.2
2026	projection	2,352,623,689	20,243,091	19,295,610	1.35	77.7
2027	projection	2,353,379,701	20,094,887	19,648,961	1.35	77.8
2028	projection	2,353,696,081	19,978,498	20,021,632	1.36	78.0
2029	projection	2,353,487,168	19,872,746	20,407,085	1.36	78.2
2030	projection	2,352,810,755	19,820,842	20,796,377	1.37	78.3
2031	projection	2,351,733,743	19,781,422	21,193,504	1.37	78.5
2032	projection	2,350,188,174	19,777,299	21,608,062	1.38	78.7
2033	projection	2,348,227,700	19,775,511	22,036,231	1.38	78.8
2034	projection	2,345,821,908	19,793,516	22,463,208	1.38	79.0
2035	projection	2,343,035,799	19,830,091	22,898,129	1.39	79.1
2036	projection	2,339,817,555	19,861,101	23,331,016	1.39	79.3
2037	projection	2,336,195,701	19,915,921	23,762,220	1.39	79.4
2038	projection	2,332,228,066	19,947,975	24,186,685	1.40	79.6
2039	projection	2,327,876,578	19,954,636	24,617,944	1.40	79.7
2040	projection	2,323,091,452	19,938,416	25,037,666	1.41	79.9
2041	projection	2,317,842,768	19,892,800	25,447,374	1.41	80.0
2042	projection	2,312,123,109	19,825,749	25,843,434	1.42	80.2
2043	projection	2,305,971,886	19,751,861	26,231,788	1.43	80.3
2044	projection	2,299,390,248	19,602,747	26,614,272	1.43	80.4
2045	projection	2,292,287,167	19,406,821	26,985,957	1.44	80.6
2046	projection	2,284,585,999	19,145,899	27,344,275	1.45	80.7
2047	projection	2,276,239,010	18,834,027	27,679,965	1.46	80.8
2048	projection	2,267,239,989	18,467,973	28,009,804	1.46	81.0
2049	projection	2,257,571,041	18,072,320	28,326,594	1.47	81.1
2050	projection	2,247,152,510	17,644,733	28,628,445	1.47	81.2
2051	projection	2,236,064,212	17,194,481	28,922,173	1.48	81.3
2052	projection	2,224,181,592	16,752,827	29,204,802	1.48	81.5
2053	projection	2,211,539,953	16,327,554	29,467,311	1.48	81.6
2054	projection	2,198,280,086	15,910,017	29,715,139	1.48	81.7
2055	projection	2,184,342,953	15,555,367	29,952,050	1.48	81.8
2056	projection	2,169,806,088	15,231,562	30,154,301	1.48	81.9
2057	projection	2,154,730,225	14,949,186	30,337,790	1.49	82.0
2058	projection	2,139,217,816	14,712,874	30,497,891	1.49	82.2
2059	projection	2,123,285,048	14,528,803	30,631,507	1.49	82.3
2060	projection	2,107,028,653	14,379,698	30,724,491	1.49	82.4
2061	projection	2,090,522,974	14,260,870	30,770,860	1.49	82.5
2062	projection	2,073,880,982	14,181,052	30,782,548	1.49	82.6
2063	projection	2,057,138,561	14,135,090	30,760,462	1.49	82.8
2064	projection	2,040,401,404	14,102,300	30,740,289	1.49	82.9
2065	projection	2,023,622,355	14,078,773	30,680,666	1.50	83.0
2066	projection	2,006,876,517	14,059,059	30,602,503	1.50	83.1
2067	projection	1,990,203,471	14,041,503	30,516,311	1.50	83.2
2068	projection	1,973,585,573	14,026,367	30,417,578	1.50	83.3
2069	projection	1,957,070,468	13,995,937	30,319,666	1.50	83.4
2070	projection	1,940,630,208	13,959,054	30,212,165	1.50	83.5
2071	projection	1,924,251,355	13,913,968	30,121,301	1.50	83.7
2072	projection	1,907,950,422	13,852,348	30,040,645	1.50	83.8
2073	projection	1,891,628,584	13,780,644	29,980,791	1.51	83.9
2074	projection	1,875,281,915	13,688,908	29,904,409	1.51	84.0
2075	projection	1,858,948,851	13,584,468	29,838,879	1.51	84.1
2076	projection	1,842,568,663	13,460,315	29,786,138	1.51	84.2
2077	projection	1,826,161,600	13,315,298	29,718,897	1.52	84.3
2078	projection	1,809,634,491	13,161,371	29,647,258	1.52	84.4
2079	projection	1,793,047,513	12,986,302	29,558,227	1.52	84.5
2080	projection	1,776,355,613	12,807,691	29,439,835	1.52	84.6
2081	projection	1,759,592,293	12,614,711	29,288,381	1.53	84.7
2082	projection	1,742,810,884	12,424,120	29,099,555	1.53	84.8
2083	projection	1,726,043,898	12,226,106	28,897,223	1.53	84.9
2084	projection	1,709,283,459	12,021,066	28,653,515	1.53	85.0
2085	projection	1,692,526,890	11,830,047	28,377,719	1.54	85.1
2086	projection	1,675,865,874	11,635,762	28,075,186	1.54	85.2
2087	projection	1,659,322,560	11,459,820	27,774,435	1.54	85.3
2088	projection	1,642,892,981	11,291,866	27,469,893	1.54	85.5
2089	projection	1,626,620,400	11,143,589	27,168,648	1.54	85.6
2090	projection	1,610,472,724	11,011,359	26,881,180	1.54	85.7
2091	projection	1,594,495,645	10,886,757	26,600,811	1.54	85.8
2092	projection	1,578,677,767	10,777,237	26,360,839	1.54	85.9
2093	projection	1,562,989,401	10,683,259	26,142,602	1.54	86.0
2094	projection	1,547,422,475	10,599,921	25,935,217	1.54	86.1
2095	projection	1,531,981,767	10,529,477	25,764,621	1.54	86.2
2096	projection	1,516,648,939	10,468,607	25,592,696	1.54	86.3
2097	projection	1,501,395,127	10,419,508	25,453,373	1.55	86.4
2098	projection	1,486,252,661	10,371,025	25,319,016	1.55	86.5
2099	projection	1,471,198,954	10,329,185	25,184,381	1.55	86.6
2100	projection	1,456,234,724	10,275,927	25,039,307	1.55	86.7

AGG · membership

What Eastern and South-Eastern Asia is

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia is one of the UN's analytical groupings. This dataset carries the group's totals, not its membership, so its countries are not listed here.

Show the numbers: Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, mid-2026, by single year of age

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	10,427,000	9,683,300
1	10,497,500	9,729,650
2	10,581,900	9,783,630
3	10,791,700	9,966,180
4	11,250,700	10,391,100
5	11,972,500	11,031,600
6	13,278,200	12,135,800
7	14,387,200	13,100,600
8	15,458,400	14,097,500
9	16,407,100	14,924,100
10	16,382,600	14,851,200
11	16,582,600	14,990,400
12	16,863,200	15,207,200
13	17,158,100	15,445,500
14	17,049,100	15,328,900
15	16,503,100	14,822,100
16	16,457,700	14,765,400
17	16,388,900	14,702,600
18	16,134,600	14,479,200
19	15,822,700	14,206,700
20	15,549,000	13,966,100
21	15,375,000	13,818,700
22	15,228,300	13,701,700
23	15,151,500	13,646,500
24	15,221,200	13,722,100
25	15,545,100	14,018,800
26	15,566,600	14,053,800
27	15,417,300	13,954,400
28	15,652,200	14,197,600
29	15,944,600	14,490,300
30	16,231,100	14,779,600
31	16,468,700	15,030,900
32	16,694,200	15,283,000
33	17,006,900	15,626,500
34	17,546,500	16,176,900
35	19,171,300	17,715,200
36	20,160,600	18,693,100
37	19,615,200	18,286,500
38	19,533,300	18,305,700
39	19,287,100	18,169,200
40	18,406,200	17,442,300
41	17,672,900	16,845,600
42	17,055,900	16,343,000
43	17,292,500	16,637,900
44	17,327,000	16,719,000
45	16,526,300	16,001,800
46	16,061,500	15,612,600
47	15,541,900	15,162,400
48	15,127,300	14,812,300
49	15,334,600	15,068,700
50	15,781,500	15,562,700
51	16,395,800	16,216,800
52	17,211,200	17,083,400
53	17,647,200	17,591,800
54	17,819,200	17,840,300
55	18,097,700	18,214,700
56	18,003,100	18,224,800
57	17,670,600	17,994,300
58	16,625,100	17,035,700
59	15,692,000	16,164,000
60	15,830,400	16,392,600
61	15,703,900	16,367,300
62	15,901,400	16,683,900
63	14,911,700	15,781,200
64	11,521,900	12,347,900
65	9,570,640	10,406,900
66	9,505,380	10,451,300
67	9,873,610	10,954,800
68	10,623,300	11,900,800
69	10,358,100	11,761,700
70	9,818,760	11,326,600
71	9,519,140	11,158,500
72	8,817,750	10,525,100
73	8,384,600	10,189,200
74	7,734,550	9,556,450
75	6,992,850	8,790,540
76	6,353,510	8,100,210
77	5,626,750	7,238,720
78	5,101,390	6,593,800
79	4,520,670	5,931,230
80	3,818,610	5,171,500
81	3,238,330	4,518,810
82	2,908,770	4,174,190
83	2,617,760	3,886,760
84	2,332,030	3,587,340
85	2,033,310	3,243,120
86	1,698,750	2,824,670
87	1,399,990	2,430,760
88	1,165,840	2,131,950
89	959,207	1,875,380
90	768,190	1,621,250
91	594,122	1,354,330
92	446,477	1,094,660
93	323,028	858,312
94	224,628	651,154
95	154,189	489,782
96	101,672	357,536
97	64,332	252,620
98	39,782	174,343
99	23,972	116,544
100+	34,760	206,114

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

On the UN's projection, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2027: 1,623,150,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 1,603,720,000.

100 aged 15–64

27 children

20 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 37 years: 1999–2035.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Eastern and South-Eastern Asia loses 305,311 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 54,980 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

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more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 562,418 (2012), and a loss of 1,218,703 (2004).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

Of every 100 babies born in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia in 2023, 5 had a mother under 20, 77 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 18 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 9 under 20 and 21 aged 35 or older.

1950
9 · 70 · 21

2023
5 · 77 · 18

2050 · projected
3 · 71 · 26

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 20,722,138
Average age when women have a baby: 28.8 years; 29.9 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 14; 76 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	125,457	124,408	34,115	9,714	5,130	1,706
15–19	3,047,326	2,622,938	1,564,554	1,005,396	529,068	190,028
20–24	8,398,239	12,525,432	9,921,645	4,258,903	2,200,444	1,184,248
25–29	8,512,563	11,269,998	11,766,711	6,301,052	4,474,334	3,038,474
30–34	6,342,067	5,973,409	5,890,626	5,477,232	5,855,659	3,415,580
35–39	4,539,030	3,527,328	1,952,188	2,801,492	3,630,693	1,931,290
40–44	2,204,604	1,657,501	491,040	722,444	867,785	470,261
45–49	272,522	243,444	69,261	134,279	79,677	43,602
50–54	8,042	13,336	6,662	11,626	1,943	738
All babies	33,449,850	37,957,794	31,696,802	20,722,138	17,644,733	10,275,927

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.