Asian Populations.....

According to the CIA factbook, China has an estimated population as of July 2005 of a skosh over 1.3 billion people and India has 1.08 billion. This represents more than a third at 37% of the total estimated world population of 6,446,131,400.

It is very well known that China and India have very large populations. But what amazes me is the size of the populations of some of the smaller land-mass countries. Indonesia, has 241 million people! And it is densely populated too, where the Indonesian island of Java, with 114 million people, results in about 856 people per square kilometer. Overall world population density presently averages 42 people per square kilometer.

Bangladesh, with a population density of 900 per square kilometer tops the list and is the most densely populated large country on earth, supporting 144 million souls.

And then there are places like The Philippines, sporting nearly 88 million and Vietnam with over 83 million people. These just aren't large land mass countries, but its amazing how many people live there.

Even good ol' Thailand has over 65 million people. Who would have thunk it?

If I had a dollar for every person that lived in Asia, I would be a happy man.