South-Eastern Asia Population Pyramid 1961
Year
1961South-Eastern Asia in 1961
As of 1961, South-Eastern Asia counted 220,997,518 inhabitants. A decade earlier, in 1951, the population was 168,486,090; it has grown by 31.2% since.
Half of the population was younger than 19.1 years; 42.4% were children under 15 and 3.0% were 65 or older. This is an expansive pyramid — each cohort of children is larger than the one above it, the signature of high birth rates and rapid growth.
Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.
The World Bank does not publish this indicator for regions or continents.
The World Bank does not publish this indicator for regions or continents.
10,188,681 immigrants live in South-Eastern Asia.
| Myanmar | 2,022,111 |
| Indonesia | 1,953,317 |
| Malaysia | 1,770,892 |
| China | 900,647 |
| India | 648,154 |
24,202,972 people born in South-Eastern Asia live in other countries.
| United States of America | 4,553,622 |
| Malaysia | 2,492,653 |
| Thailand | 2,411,537 |
| Bangladesh | 1,936,329 |
| Singapore | 1,733,686 |





