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Table 1. Growth and Income in Asia

Period Japan Korea Indonesia China India
Average Annual GDP Percent Growth (2005 U.S. dollars)
1960s 10.4 8.3 3.7 3.4 3.9
1970s 4.1 10.5 7.8 7.5 2.9
1980s 4.4 8.6 6.4 9.8 5.7
1990s 1.5 6.7 4.8 10.0 5.8
2000s .6 4.7 5.1 10.3 6.9
2010-14 1.5 3.7 5.8 8.6 7.3
  Per Capita GDP (2005 U.S. dollars)
1960s 10,576 1,335 290 108 245
1970s 17,782 2,895 416 169 278
1980s 24,620 5,749 644 328 334
1990s 32,779 11,618 1,026 746 463
2000s 35,250 18,350 1,258 1,761 724
2010-14 36,916 23,373 1,712 3,381 1,115

Note: GDP is gross domestic product.

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

 

Table 2. Asia: Real GDP


Year-on-year percent change
  Actual Data and Latest Projections Difference from
April 2015 WEO
2012 2013 2014 2015 [projection] 2016 [projection] 2014 2015 2016
Asia 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.4 5.4 0.0 -0.2 -0.1
Emerging Asia1 6.8 7.0 6.8 6.5 6.3 0.0 -0.1 -0.1
Australia 3.6 2.1 2.7 2.4 2.9 0.0 -0.4 -0.3
Japan 17 1.6 -0.1 0.6 1.0 0.0 -0.4 -0.2
New Zealand 2.9 2.5 3.3 2.2 2.4 0.1 -0.7 -0.3
East Asia 6.8 6.9 6.7 6.2 5.8 0.0 -0.1 -0.1
China 7.7 7.7 7.3 6.8 6.3 -0.1 0.0 0.0
Hong Kong SAR 17 3.1 2.5 2.5 2.7 0.2 -0.3 -0.4
Korea 2.3 2.9 3.3 2.7 3.2 0.0 -0.6 -0.3
Taiwan Province of China 2.1 2.2 3.8 2.2 2.6 0.1 -1.6 -15
South Asia 5.2 6.8 7.2 7.2 7.4 0.1 -0.1 0.0
Bangladesh 6.3 6.0 6.3 6.5 6.8 0.2 0.2 0.0
India 5.1 6.9 7.3 7.3 7.5 0.1 -0.2 0.0
Sri Lanka 6.3 7.3 7.4 6.5 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Nepal 4.8 4.1 5.4 3.4 4.4 -0.1 -1.6 -0.6
ASEAN 6.0 5.2 4.6 4.6 5.0 0.0 -0.5 -0.3
Brunei Darussalam 0.9 -2.1 -2.3 -1.2 3.2 -1.6 -0.7 0.4
Cambodia 7.3 7.4 7.0 7.0 7.2 0.0 -0.2 0.0
Indonesia 6.0 5.6 5.0 4.7 5.1 0.0 -0.5 -0.4
Lao P.D.R. 7.9 8.0 7.4 7.5 8.0 0.0 0.2 0.2
Malaysia 5.5 4.7 6.0 4.7 4.5 0.0 -0.1 -0.4
Myanmar 7.3 8.4 8.5 8.5 8.4 0.8 0.2 -0.1
Philippines 6.7 7.1 6.1 6.0 6.3 0.0 -0.7 0.0
Singapore 3.4 4.4 2.9 2.2 2.9 0.0 -0.8 -0.1
Thailand 7.3 2.8 0.9 2.5 3.2 0.2 -1.2 -0.8
Vietnam 5.2 5.4 6.0 6.5 6.4 0.0 0.5 0.6
Pacific island countries and other
small states2
3.0 1.3 3.5 3.6 3.4 -0.1 -0.4 0.0
Memorandum items:
World 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.6 0.0 -0.4 -0.2
Advanced economies 1.2 1.1 1.8 2.0 2.2 0.0 -0.4 -0.2
United States 2.2 1.5 2.4 2.6 2.8 0.0 -0.5 -0.3
Euro area -0.7 -0.2 0.9 1.5 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
Emerging and developing economies 5.2 5.0 4.6 4.0 4.5 0.0 -0.3 -0.2

Sources: IMF, World Economic Outlook database; and IMF staff projections.

1. Emerging Asia includes China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. India's data are reported on a fiscal year basis.  Return to table

2. Simple average of Pacific island countries and other small states which include Bhutan, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.  Return to table

Note: This table originally appeared as table 1 in International Monetary Fund (2015), Regional Economic Outlook Update: Asia and Pacific Department (Washington: IMF, October), p.12, www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2015/apd/eng/pdf/areo1015.pdf.

 

Table 3. Emerging Asia Demographics

Country or Territory UN Estimates for 2015
Median Population Age (2015) Percent of Population Age 65 or over (2030)
Bangladesh 26 7
Bhutan 27 8
Cambodia 24 7
China 37 17
Hong Kong 43 26
India 27 8
Indonesia 28 8
Korea 41 24
Lao P.D.R. 22 5
Malaysia 29 10
Myanmar 29 9
Nepal 23 7
Philippines 24 7
Singapore 40 23
Sri Lanka 32 15
Thailand 38 19
Vietnam 30 12
Memo:
Germany 46 28
Japan 47 30
United States 38 21

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2015), World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision, Key Findings and Advance Tables, Working Paper ESA/P/WP.241 (New York: UN), http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/key_findings_WPP_2015.pdf.

 

Table 4. Population and GDP for Emerging Asia, 2014

Country or Territory Population (millions) GDP (billions of current U.S. dollars)
Bangladesh 158.22 183.82
Bhutan .77 1.98
Brunei Darussalam .41 17.10
Cambodia 15.31 16.55
China 1,367.82 10,356.51
Fiji .89 4.29
Hong Kong 7.27 290.90
India 1,275.92 2,051.23
Indonesia 252.17 888.65
Kiribati .11 .18
Korea 50.42 1,410.38
Lao P.D.R. 6.90 11.68
Malaysia 30.60 338.11
Maldives .34 2.89
Marshall Islands .05 .19
Micronesia .10 .31
Mongolia 2.93 12.04
Myanmar 51.42 63.14
Nepal 28.11 19.76
Palau .02 .25
Papua New Guinea 7.53 16.81
Philippines 99.43 284.62
Samoa .19 .83
Singapore 5.47 307.87
Solomon Islands .58 1.16
Sri Lanka 20.96 74.92
Taiwan 23.43 529.60
Thailand 68.66 404.82
Timor-Leste 1.23 4.97
Tonga .10 .44
Tuvalu .01 .04
Vanuatu .26 .82
Vietnam 90.63 185.90

Note: GDP is gross domestic product.

Source: International Monetary Fund (2015), World Economic Outlook: Adjusting to Lower Commodity Prices (Washington: IMF, October), www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2015/02/pdf/text.pdf.

Last Update: November 19, 2015