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This is a list of continents and continental subregions by population. World population by continent, 2021. Asia (59.4%) Africa (17.6%) Europe (9.4%) North America (7.5%) South America (5.5%) Oceania (0.6%) Antarctica (0%)
Encompassing the two most highly populated countries in the world – China and India – Asia is by far the largest of the continents, with a total population of over 4.5 billion people. Around 40 million people live in Australia/Oceania, the smallest continent.
Asia is the most populous continent in the world, with 4.81 billion people accounting for nearly 58.89% of the world population as of 2024. Africa is the second most largest continent by population, with around 1.52 billion people, or 18.56% of the world's population.
Asia is, by far, the world continent with the largest population. The world's two most populous states, China and India, are located here.
As of 2019, the continent had an estimated population of 4.58 billion people. Asia occupies four-fifths of the Eurasian supercontinent and is divided politically into 50 countries. The continent also includes the world's three most populated regions: Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, and Southeastern Asia.
Population of the world's continents from 1800 to 2021, with estimates until 2100
Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2100, based on data and estimates from different sources. Source. HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Last updated.
Asia is by far the largest continent in the world, spanning 17.2 million square miles (44.6 million square kilometers). Being the largest geographically also puts Asia at an advantage population-wise. It counts 4.7 billion of the world's 8 billion-person population.
Population Graphs Comparison. Total population. Birth rate. Death rate. Life expectancy. Median Age. Urbanization.
Population of continents. By 2050, the population of Asia will be the size of the entire world population in 1990 (around 5.3 billion). The population of Africa will double from 1.2 billion in 2016 to 2.4 billion in 2050.