UN country group · UN WPP 2024

LLDC: Asia population

LLDC: Asia population now

185,991,585

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: 177,104,448

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 185.319 million
Median age: 25.2
Aged 65+: 5.9%

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male female projection · one cell = 50,000 people

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AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

LLDC: Asia in numbers

177,104,448 people lived in LLDC: Asia in mid-2023: 2.2% of the world's people. That is 4.3 times its 1950 population of 40.9 million.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 339 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 21.6 in 1950 and 24.9 in 2023; the projection has 39.9 in 2100. 5.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 19.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Population, mid-2023: 177,104,448
Share of the world, 2023: 2.2%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.47% · +2,566,287 people
Births, 2023: 4,376,393
Deaths, 2023: 1,104,395
Net migration, 2023: −487,793
Children per woman, 2023: 3.10
Median age, 2023: 24.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 70.6 years
Population, mid-1950: 40,899,545
Projected, mid-2050: 254,000,731
Projected, mid-2100: 339,127,939

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: LLDC: Asia, 1950–2100

LLDC: 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	40,441,478	1,715,501	944,966	5.64	41.7
1951	estimate	41,357,612	1,761,001	957,880	5.63	42.2
1952	estimate	42,295,300	1,812,526	969,985	5.65	42.7
1953	estimate	43,254,443	1,868,968	981,672	5.68	43.1
1954	estimate	44,232,310	1,923,947	993,979	5.70	43.4
1955	estimate	45,251,778	1,988,060	1,002,680	5.75	43.9
1956	estimate	46,323,556	2,057,984	1,014,288	5.80	44.3
1957	estimate	47,459,142	2,130,304	1,026,763	5.86	44.8
1958	estimate	48,652,079	2,208,118	1,036,780	5.93	45.3
1959	estimate	49,887,530	2,273,812	1,046,508	5.98	45.7
1960	estimate	51,227,211	2,342,979	1,056,701	6.05	46.2
1961	estimate	52,649,774	2,397,601	1,065,172	6.08	46.6
1962	estimate	54,158,808	2,441,736	1,071,331	6.10	47.1
1963	estimate	55,722,066	2,463,777	1,078,925	6.07	47.4
1964	estimate	57,307,771	2,472,134	1,079,537	6.01	47.9
1965	estimate	58,915,980	2,474,969	1,080,583	5.93	48.2
1966	estimate	60,545,577	2,485,330	1,081,519	5.86	48.6
1967	estimate	62,179,745	2,501,755	1,082,638	5.79	49.0
1968	estimate	63,844,938	2,518,647	1,085,145	5.70	49.3
1969	estimate	65,520,573	2,548,611	1,087,746	5.63	49.7
1970	estimate	67,171,837	2,597,742	1,093,065	5.61	50.1
1971	estimate	68,825,180	2,654,708	1,099,393	5.59	50.5
1972	estimate	70,475,240	2,706,387	1,105,274	5.55	50.9
1973	estimate	72,175,771	2,749,648	1,111,008	5.49	51.2
1974	estimate	73,895,701	2,808,109	1,116,746	5.46	51.6
1975	estimate	75,643,715	2,858,765	1,122,792	5.40	52.0
1976	estimate	77,402,081	2,911,385	1,129,025	5.34	52.4
1977	estimate	79,327,876	2,965,672	1,134,207	5.26	52.9
1978	estimate	81,333,378	3,019,206	1,156,372	5.16	53.0
1979	estimate	83,281,496	3,096,744	1,180,492	5.10	53.0
1980	estimate	84,545,250	3,150,825	1,187,859	5.06	53.6
1981	estimate	85,197,889	3,159,218	1,168,157	4.96	54.2
1982	estimate	85,036,225	3,130,137	1,159,372	4.86	54.3
1983	estimate	86,349,155	3,197,171	1,148,702	4.82	55.0
1984	estimate	88,064,121	3,293,838	1,215,575	4.83	54.1
1985	estimate	90,152,256	3,397,789	1,216,689	4.82	54.6
1986	estimate	91,867,816	3,464,857	1,138,489	4.79	56.7
1987	estimate	93,658,705	3,491,031	1,130,669	4.70	57.2
1988	estimate	95,448,318	3,490,268	1,114,115	4.59	57.9
1989	estimate	97,608,812	3,505,104	1,085,113	4.49	58.8
1990	estimate	99,825,650	3,545,503	1,094,795	4.44	59.0
1991	estimate	101,488,624	3,563,428	1,095,644	4.39	59.2
1992	estimate	103,735,491	3,565,829	1,117,153	4.29	59.1
1993	estimate	106,774,468	3,608,396	1,114,870	4.23	59.6
1994	estimate	109,706,871	3,624,921	1,134,284	4.16	59.7
1995	estimate	111,712,159	3,627,425	1,127,947	4.09	60.1
1996	estimate	113,593,436	3,536,810	1,121,766	3.92	60.3
1997	estimate	115,314,570	3,492,430	1,112,348	3.82	60.6
1998	estimate	116,846,757	3,450,367	1,113,585	3.72	60.8
1999	estimate	118,318,145	3,413,961	1,085,880	3.62	61.4
2000	estimate	120,160,163	3,389,843	1,078,916	3.53	61.8
2001	estimate	121,122,282	3,330,650	1,058,619	3.42	62.3
2002	estimate	122,873,169	3,332,883	1,052,048	3.36	62.8
2003	estimate	125,723,387	3,397,586	1,052,092	3.33	63.3
2004	estimate	127,995,055	3,487,806	1,053,787	3.34	63.7
2005	estimate	129,796,699	3,494,440	1,052,808	3.27	64.1
2006	estimate	132,125,047	3,566,080	1,053,697	3.26	64.5
2007	estimate	134,274,782	3,657,896	1,053,902	3.26	65.0
2008	estimate	135,584,080	3,717,577	1,039,205	3.25	65.6
2009	estimate	138,000,486	3,773,428	1,037,912	3.21	66.0
2010	estimate	140,261,409	3,824,422	1,038,773	3.17	66.4
2011	estimate	142,482,794	3,868,352	1,036,813	3.14	66.9
2012	estimate	145,246,617	3,961,984	1,041,368	3.14	67.3
2013	estimate	147,778,445	4,049,818	1,044,904	3.16	67.7
2014	estimate	150,345,727	4,135,104	1,054,387	3.18	68.0
2015	estimate	153,266,743	4,178,375	1,074,334	3.17	68.1
2016	estimate	155,819,690	4,171,176	1,065,891	3.13	68.6
2017	estimate	158,426,462	4,153,178	1,075,543	3.08	68.8
2018	estimate	161,063,090	4,224,023	1,086,339	3.10	69.0
2019	estimate	163,814,496	4,281,047	1,094,528	3.12	69.3
2020	estimate	167,228,315	4,346,555	1,245,404	3.14	68.0
2021	estimate	170,666,387	4,410,583	1,307,069	3.16	67.6
2022	estimate	173,363,971	4,384,625	1,097,383	3.12	70.2
2023	estimate	175,712,351	4,376,393	1,104,395	3.10	70.6
2024	estimate	178,496,546	4,355,041	1,112,414	3.07	70.8
2025	projection	181,246,880	4,320,039	1,128,086	3.03	71.0
2026	projection	183,946,983	4,289,685	1,144,614	3.00	71.2
2027	projection	186,690,659	4,276,271	1,163,260	2.96	71.3
2028	projection	189,495,881	4,268,167	1,182,516	2.93	71.5
2029	projection	192,419,506	4,260,924	1,202,568	2.90	71.7
2030	projection	195,384,826	4,270,301	1,225,276	2.87	71.9
2031	projection	198,360,908	4,284,139	1,248,647	2.84	72.1
2032	projection	201,311,097	4,301,222	1,273,184	2.81	72.2
2033	projection	204,240,852	4,322,063	1,298,987	2.79	72.4
2034	projection	207,169,532	4,353,091	1,326,136	2.77	72.6
2035	projection	210,016,816	4,376,649	1,352,662	2.75	72.8
2036	projection	212,863,349	4,402,514	1,379,785	2.73	72.9
2037	projection	215,733,542	4,426,982	1,407,969	2.70	73.1
2038	projection	218,598,887	4,443,030	1,436,651	2.67	73.3
2039	projection	221,440,490	4,469,734	1,465,390	2.65	73.4
2040	projection	224,350,873	4,503,955	1,495,227	2.64	73.6
2041	projection	227,300,726	4,534,405	1,524,907	2.62	73.7
2042	projection	230,184,583	4,564,013	1,554,894	2.60	73.9
2043	projection	232,988,040	4,587,180	1,584,006	2.58	74.0
2044	projection	235,845,152	4,610,406	1,613,236	2.56	74.2
2045	projection	238,657,264	4,624,002	1,642,430	2.54	74.3
2046	projection	241,469,419	4,636,174	1,671,742	2.53	74.5
2047	projection	244,331,848	4,639,181	1,701,585	2.50	74.6
2048	projection	247,110,061	4,639,674	1,730,483	2.48	74.8
2049	projection	249,879,971	4,635,336	1,759,204	2.46	74.9
2050	projection	252,688,008	4,630,665	1,788,188	2.44	75.0
2051	projection	255,313,454	4,619,292	1,816,339	2.42	75.2
2052	projection	257,864,319	4,605,523	1,844,532	2.40	75.3
2053	projection	260,490,741	4,598,468	1,873,630	2.39	75.5
2054	projection	263,097,958	4,591,544	1,902,685	2.37	75.6
2055	projection	265,671,586	4,586,506	1,932,540	2.36	75.7
2056	projection	268,221,531	4,581,169	1,962,392	2.35	75.9
2057	projection	270,771,284	4,576,766	1,993,337	2.33	76.0
2058	projection	273,271,833	4,571,848	2,024,315	2.32	76.1
2059	projection	275,688,185	4,565,724	2,055,997	2.31	76.3
2060	projection	277,984,480	4,557,899	2,088,509	2.29	76.4
2061	projection	280,277,598	4,549,142	2,122,014	2.28	76.5
2062	projection	282,483,746	4,541,702	2,155,529	2.27	76.6
2063	projection	284,773,428	4,538,514	2,190,058	2.25	76.8
2064	projection	287,023,391	4,534,824	2,226,417	2.24	76.9
2065	projection	289,292,000	4,537,056	2,262,457	2.23	77.0
2066	projection	291,525,894	4,539,474	2,298,780	2.22	77.1
2067	projection	293,601,599	4,532,399	2,335,499	2.21	77.3
2068	projection	295,628,996	4,528,313	2,372,467	2.20	77.4
2069	projection	297,722,741	4,525,368	2,409,448	2.19	77.5
2070	projection	299,735,993	4,523,349	2,445,935	2.17	77.6
2071	projection	301,788,098	4,521,106	2,482,269	2.16	77.7
2072	projection	303,660,626	4,513,867	2,517,875	2.15	77.9
2073	projection	305,540,241	4,504,522	2,552,716	2.14	78.0
2074	projection	307,452,775	4,499,380	2,587,310	2.13	78.1
2075	projection	309,241,094	4,490,604	2,620,387	2.12	78.2
2076	projection	310,890,607	4,476,345	2,652,755	2.11	78.3
2077	projection	312,557,722	4,463,103	2,684,101	2.10	78.4
2078	projection	314,225,538	4,449,543	2,712,933	2.09	78.6
2079	projection	315,772,330	4,433,443	2,741,017	2.08	78.7
2080	projection	317,433,448	4,423,979	2,768,242	2.07	78.8
2081	projection	318,968,162	4,408,139	2,792,761	2.06	78.9
2082	projection	320,336,406	4,388,370	2,818,139	2.05	79.0
2083	projection	321,657,797	4,366,335	2,842,768	2.04	79.2
2084	projection	322,953,752	4,347,188	2,866,587	2.04	79.3
2085	projection	324,355,083	4,330,329	2,889,738	2.03	79.4
2086	projection	325,624,829	4,312,006	2,913,890	2.02	79.5
2087	projection	326,747,156	4,290,628	2,936,480	2.01	79.7
2088	projection	327,972,505	4,273,324	2,962,191	2.01	79.8
2089	projection	329,087,141	4,253,631	2,988,252	2.00	79.9
2090	projection	330,165,593	4,232,954	3,015,305	1.99	80.0
2091	projection	331,295,571	4,214,733	3,043,874	1.98	80.1
2092	projection	332,293,237	4,197,447	3,072,826	1.98	80.3
2093	projection	333,251,952	4,180,666	3,104,106	1.97	80.4
2094	projection	334,188,587	4,163,427	3,135,998	1.97	80.5
2095	projection	335,074,419	4,148,284	3,169,671	1.96	80.6
2096	projection	335,897,988	4,134,185	3,202,189	1.96	80.7
2097	projection	336,678,031	4,118,652	3,235,043	1.95	80.8
2098	projection	337,439,165	4,105,308	3,269,123	1.95	81.0
2099	projection	338,158,559	4,088,836	3,303,252	1.94	81.1
2100	projection	338,846,716	4,072,250	3,338,143	1.93	81.2

AGG · membership

What LLDC: Asia is

LLDC: 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: LLDC: Asia, mid-2026, by single year of age

LLDC: Asia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	2,158,670	2,046,900
1	2,156,410	2,047,790
2	2,161,110	2,051,660
3	2,157,650	2,046,530
4	2,152,700	2,040,430
5	2,133,760	2,023,270
6	2,098,730	1,990,420
7	2,060,060	1,952,250
8	2,024,780	1,917,110
9	2,010,050	1,903,670
10	2,008,160	1,905,290
11	1,993,490	1,893,670
12	1,951,550	1,855,830
13	1,900,500	1,807,780
14	1,857,540	1,765,690
15	1,834,160	1,743,720
16	1,807,290	1,720,610
17	1,759,610	1,679,250
18	1,698,180	1,625,520
19	1,630,560	1,565,790
20	1,574,360	1,520,210
21	1,531,080	1,489,000
22	1,490,440	1,460,120
23	1,457,650	1,438,970
24	1,436,370	1,427,740
25	1,423,380	1,424,000
26	1,415,770	1,423,830
27	1,404,190	1,419,750
28	1,396,750	1,419,850
29	1,401,170	1,429,970
30	1,406,900	1,440,860
31	1,401,250	1,439,460
32	1,389,240	1,430,430
33	1,378,100	1,421,660
34	1,364,930	1,409,640
35	1,345,880	1,391,950
36	1,315,620	1,363,960
37	1,281,930	1,331,530
38	1,253,150	1,303,340
39	1,223,410	1,273,850
40	1,184,770	1,235,360
41	1,136,890	1,187,180
42	1,085,950	1,135,040
43	1,038,180	1,086,270
44	998,884	1,045,410
45	967,967	1,012,910
46	934,716	979,552
47	896,901	943,048
48	865,999	913,904
49	840,086	891,589
50	814,954	870,844
51	789,534	848,190
52	762,718	823,841
53	739,986	803,079
54	720,713	784,676
55	700,938	766,731
56	673,355	745,238
57	641,030	721,286
58	616,147	700,776
59	597,966	684,382
60	584,064	673,738
61	568,368	661,610
62	547,904	643,200
63	527,670	625,705
64	506,776	608,104
65	483,640	587,426
66	453,690	560,012
67	417,500	525,048
68	382,086	489,306
69	348,847	455,797
70	317,357	422,980
71	286,881	388,895
72	256,789	355,234
73	229,575	324,908
74	205,523	296,928
75	183,462	270,326
76	159,312	242,320
77	135,962	214,002
78	116,636	187,983
79	96,742	159,010
80	77,650	128,252
81	62,499	103,435
82	52,706	89,467
83	46,972	85,129
84	42,497	83,342
85	37,504	78,876
86	31,576	70,816
87	25,795	61,584
88	20,554	51,538
89	15,534	40,540
90	11,114	30,022
91	7,604	21,132
92	5,120	14,868
93	3,508	10,800
94	2,401	7,796
95	1,635	5,615
96	1,084	3,940
97	682	2,613
98	401	1,636
99	216	942
100+	203	1,140

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

LLDC: 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 LLDC: Asia

In LLDC: Asia the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 109,247,000 of them.

100 aged 15–64

53 children

9 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

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 LLDC: Asia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 LLDC: Asia loses 480,475 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 82,386 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 10,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 590,303 (1992), and a loss of 2,152,733 (1981).

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 LLDC: Asia

Of every 100 babies born in LLDC: Asia in 2023, 9 had a mother under 20, 79 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 12 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 10 under 20 and 20 aged 35 or older.

1950
10 · 70 · 20

2023
9 · 79 · 12

2050 · projected
6 · 76 · 18

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

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 4,376,393
Average age when women have a baby: 27.9 years; 29.7 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 49; 80 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in LLDC: Asia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	6,526	10,635	21,831	4,641	1,409	285
15–19	164,207	274,004	444,478	382,285	295,170	140,071
20–24	501,773	877,747	1,157,417	1,309,922	1,128,945	619,145
25–29	422,466	703,358	877,116	1,288,584	1,331,033	1,124,421
30–34	281,813	454,247	522,857	846,302	1,035,167	1,175,793
35–39	218,564	359,638	257,736	410,198	609,149	760,447
40–44	98,217	148,963	89,551	113,755	194,881	221,631
45–49	20,950	28,768	17,800	19,690	33,262	29,270
50–54	985	1,405	1,057	1,016	1,649	1,187
All babies	1,715,501	2,858,765	3,389,843	4,376,393	4,630,665	4,072,250

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.

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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.