Countries in Asia by children under 15

Countries in Asia by children under 15, World Bank, 2025

#	Country	% under 15	Region
1	Afghanistan	42.6%	Southern Asia
2	Yemen	41.0%	Western Asia
3	Pakistan	36.2%	Southern Asia
4	Iraq	36.0%	Western Asia
5	Tajikistan	35.9%	Central Asia
6	Timor-Leste	33.1%	South-Eastern Asia
7	Kyrgyzstan	31.9%	Central Asia
8	Mongolia	31.6%	Eastern Asia
9	Uzbekistan	31.3%	Central Asia
10	Turkmenistan	31.2%	Central Asia
11	Jordan	30.2%	Western Asia
12	Laos	29.8%	South-Eastern Asia
13	Cambodia	29.5%	South-Eastern Asia
14	Kazakhstan	29.1%	Central Asia
15	Syria	28.4%	Western Asia
16	Nepal	28.1%	Southern Asia
17	Bangladesh	27.6%	Southern Asia
18	Israel	27.2%	Western Asia
19	Philippines	27.1%	South-Eastern Asia
20	Lebanon	25.6%	Western Asia
21	Oman	24.3%	Western Asia
=22	India	24.2%	Southern Asia
=22	Indonesia	24.2%	South-Eastern Asia
24	Myanmar	24.1%	South-Eastern Asia
25	Saudi Arabia	23.6%	Western Asia
26	Vietnam	22.9%	South-Eastern Asia
27	Iran	22.0%	Southern Asia
28	Sri Lanka	21.7%	Southern Asia
29	Malaysia	21.3%	South-Eastern Asia
30	Azerbaijan	21.2%	Western Asia
31	Turkey	21.0%	Western Asia
32	Brunei	20.6%	South-Eastern Asia
33	Georgia	20.5%	Western Asia
34	Bhutan	20.4%	Southern Asia
=35	Armenia	19.0%	Western Asia
=35	Maldives	19.0%	Southern Asia
37	North Korea	18.9%	Eastern Asia
38	Bahrain	18.4%	Western Asia
39	Kuwait	18.0%	Western Asia
40	Cyprus	16.1%	Western Asia
41	United Arab Emirates	16.0%	Western Asia
42	China	15.4%	Eastern Asia
43	Qatar	15.0%	Western Asia
44	Thailand	14.4%	South-Eastern Asia
45	Singapore	11.7%	South-Eastern Asia
46	Japan	11.2%	Eastern Asia
47	South Korea	10.2%	Eastern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	% under 15	Status
Palestine	37.6%	Status disputed
Macao	13.7%	Territory of China
Hong Kong	10.3%	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the largest share of children?

Afghanistan has the largest share of children in Asia: 42.6% under 15 (2025). Next come Yemen (41.0% under 15) and Pakistan (36.2% under 15).

Which country in Asia has the smallest share of children?

South Korea, with 10.2% under 15 (2025).

What is the typical children under 15 of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 24.1% under 15: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of the population aged 0 to 14. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.