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Asia

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Key facts

  • number of countries: 47
  • number of regions: 5
  • land area: 31,069,129 km²
  • population: 4,443,425,961

Profile

The continent Asia has a population of 4,443,425,961 spread across 47 countries and 5 regions. The land area of the continent is 31,069,129 km².

In the news

Asia has been mentioned 1225 times in the news, here is the latest (trend):

Making Asia Grimace Again? Idea of Trump 2.0 White House fuels regional unease
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China drives Asia's venture capital market with 6 of the top 10 quarterly deals: KPMG
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The D Brief: Russian strike leaves blackouts; SecDef heads to Asia; Earth's hot streak; Olympians in uniform; And a bit more.
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Austin heads to Asia with $500M for the Philippines
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Politics

  • Armed forces personnel: 15,644,000.00
  • Democracy score: 4.12
  • Military expenditure: 2.99 % of GDP
  • Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 19.07 %

Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Asia

Evolution of historical military expenditure (% of GDP) in Asia

Evolution of the historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in Asia

Business

Health

  • Birth rate: 32.15 per 1,000 people
  • Death rate: 13.23 per 1,000 people
  • Health expenditure per capita: 775.11 current US$
  • Health expenditure: 6.14 % of GDP
  • Incidence of hiv: 0.07 per 1,000 uninfected population
  • Hospital beds: 3.41 per 1,000 people
  • Life expectancy at birth: 61.08 years
  • Suicide mortality rate: 6.95 per 100,000 population

Evolution of historical birth rate in Asia

Evolution of historical death rate in Asia

Evolution of average health expenditure per capita in Asia

Evolution of historical health expenditure (% of GDP) in Asia

Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in Asia

Evolution of historical hospital beds in Asia

Evolution of historical life expectancy in Asia

Evolution of historical suicide rate in Asia

Environment

There are countries in Asia. There are regions in Asia.
  • Agricultural land: 16,638,788.25 km²
  • Alternative and nuclear energy: 4.59 % of total energy use
  • Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 19,620,120.87 kt
  • Electricity production from coal sources: 19.01 % of total
  • Electricity production from natural gas sources: 43.54 % of total
  • Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 20.05 % of total
  • Electricity production from nuclear sources: 1.81 % of total
  • Electricity production from oil sources: 12.03 % of total
  • Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 1.61 % of total
  • Net energy imports: -50.25 % of energy use
  • Fertility rate: 4.40 births per woman
  • Forest area: 6,237,789 km²
  • Fossil fuel energy consumption: 75.48 % of total
  • Other greenhouse gas emissions, hfc, pfc and sf6: -607,026.28 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
  • Median age: 20.64 years
  • Methane emissions: 3,871,439.31 kt of CO2 equivalent
  • Nitrous oxide emissions: 1,313,327.64 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
  • Female population: 2,184,346,941.00
  • Male population: 2,259,079,017.00
  • Renewable energy consumption: 17.24 % of total final energy consumption
  • Rural land area: 29,703,407.83 km²
  • Rural population: 2,122,858,079.00
  • Urban land area: 1,119,419.75 km²
  • Urban population: 2,320,567,882.00
  • Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 4.57 % of total population

Geographical distribution of records in Asia

Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in Asia

Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources in Asia

Evolution of historical net energy imports in Asia

Evolution of historical fertility rate in Asia

Evolution of historical total forest area in Asia

Evolution of historical fossil energy consumption (% of total) in Asia

Evolution of historical other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Asia

Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Asia

Evolution of historical internet access in Asia

Evolution of historical total land area in Asia

Evolution of historical median age in Asia

Evolution of historical methane emissions in Asia

Evolution of historical net migration in Asia

Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in Asia

Evolution of historical population in Asia

Evolution of historical female population in Asia

Evolution of historical male population in Asia

Evolution of historical renewable energy consumption (%) in Asia

Evolution of historical total rural land in Asia

Evolution of historical rural population in Asia

Evolution of historical agricultural land in Asia

Evolution of historical urban land in Asia

Evolution of historical urban population in Asia

Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Asia

Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy (% of total energy use) in Asia

Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Asia

Evolution of historical access to electricity in Asia

Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in Asia (% of total)

Evolution of historical electricity production from natural gas sources in Asia

Evolution of historical electricity production from hydroelectric sources in Asia (% of total)

Evolution of historical electricity production from nuclear sources (% of total) in Asia

Source

This dashboard is based on data from: World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

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