Countries in Asia by population

Territories and other places

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

Place	People	Status
Hong Kong	7,498,900	Territory of China
Palestine	5,413,596	Status disputed
Macao	685,900	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the largest population?

India has the largest population in Asia: 1.46 billion people (2025). Next come China (1.41 billion people) and Indonesia (286 million people).

Which country in Asia has the smallest population?

Brunei, with 466,330 people (2025).

What is the typical population of a country in Asia?

The median of the 48 countries in Asia is 21 million people: 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?

Mid-year population estimate: everyone living there, whatever their citizenship. Source: World Bank, mostly 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. Where the World Bank has no estimate, the population is Wikidata’s. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.