Asia population
51 countries59% of world todayStill growing
Asia population right now
4,849,336,830
Births this year
0
Deaths this year
0
Net change this year
0
Today
4.85 billion
59% of world
2050
5.28 billion
2100
4.62 billion
45% of world
Peaks
2054
5.29 billion
Asia population over time
Total population 1950-2100, medium variant
The Asia outlook
Asia is home to about 4.85 billion people in 2026, roughly 59% of the world total, spread across 51 countries and territories. Its most populous are India, China, Indonesia.
Asia keeps growing for now, peaking at about 5.29 billion around 2054, before easing back to roughly 4.62 billion by 2100 as fertility falls. Its share of the world edges down from 59% to about 45% over the same period.
These are the UN's medium-variant figures, the central scenario rather than a forecast. The further out they run the wider the plausible range, but the broad shape of Asia's century is consistent across the main variants.
Largest countries in Asia
By population today