Southern Asia Population Pyramid 2016
Year
2016Southern Asia in 2016
In 2016, Southern Asia had a total population of 1,894,465,345 people. A decade earlier, in 2006, the population was 1,645,686,881; it has grown by 15.1% since.
The median age was 25.7 years, and for every 100 people of working age (15–64) there were 46.2 children under 15 and 8.3 people aged 65 or over. The near-vertical sides of the pyramid indicate a stationary age structure, with births roughly balancing the passage of cohorts into older age.
Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.
No World Bank data for this country.
No World Bank data for this country.
14,857,548 immigrants live in Southern Asia.
| Afghanistan | 5,693,549 |
| Bangladesh | 2,338,190 |
| India | 2,131,118 |
| Myanmar | 1,381,635 |
| Pakistan | 853,388 |
47,612,838 people born in Southern Asia live in other countries.
| Saudi Arabia | 6,787,336 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5,352,371 |
| United States of America | 4,870,541 |
| India | 4,006,069 |
| Iran | 3,765,139 |





