Population: Asia
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ISRAEL RANKINGS
Ranking 3
Population
Israel and Asia
Israel Iran Other Asian country
0 M 500 M 1 billion 1500 M
India 1.42 billion
China 1.41 billion
Indonesia 283.6 million
Pakistan 257.0 million
Bangladesh 174.4 million
Japan 123.2 million
Philippines 118.3 million
Vietnam 106.7 million
Iran 89.2 million
Turkey 84.6 million
Thailand 70.0 million
Myanmar 57.9 million
South Korea 51.5 million
Afghanistan 49.5 million
Iraq 42.9 million
Uzbekistan 37.0 million
Saudi Arabia 36.5 million
Malaysia 34.9 million
Yemen 34.5 million
Nepal 31.3 million
North Korea 26.4 million
Syria 24.3 million
Taiwan 23.6 million
Sri Lanka 22.1 million
Kazakhstan 20.4 million
Cambodia 17.2 million
Jordan 11.3 million
Azerbaijan 10.7 million
Tajikistan 10.6 million
United Arab Emirates 10.1 million
Israel 9.4 million
Laos 8.0 million
Kyrgyzstan 6.2 million
Singapore 6.1 million
Turkmenistan 5.7 million
Lebanon 5.4 million
Georgia 4.9 million
Oman 4.0 million
West Bank 3.3 million
Mongolia 3.3 million
Kuwait 3.2 million
Armenia 3.0 million
Qatar 2.6 million
Gaza Strip 2.2 million
Bahrain 1.6 million
Timor-Leste 1.4 million
Bhutan 893 thousand
Brunei 492 thousand
Maldives 389 thousand
Population estimates, 2024 to 2025. Bars are to scale. Israel in blue, Iran in brown.
Among 49 countries of Asia, Israel ranks 31 by population. India and China each have about 150 times as many people. Israel is larger than Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore and the others below it.
Bar lengths are drawn to scale, so the smaller countries appear as thin bars next to India and China. Asia here includes Turkey, the Caucasus, and the Arab League members that lie in Asia.
Source. CIA World Factbook, last edition before its retirement in February 2026, from the public factbook.json archive. Population, total, 2024 or 2025 estimate. Cyprus is shown on the Europe page.
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