Table A6.14: Asia-Pacific Population - Low Fertility Variant (in thousands)

Country	1960	1970	1980	1990	1995	%	*Cum %	2000	2005	2010	%	* Cum %
CHINA (All)	657492	830675	998877	1155305	1220224	39	39	1269927	1304355	1329683	36	36
India	442344	554911	688856	850793	929005	29	68	1002476	1068320	1122487	31	67
Indonesia	96194	120280	150958	182812	197460	6	74	211303	222771	230364	6	73
Pakistan	49955	65706	85299	119141	136257	4	79	155704	176562	198293	5	78
Japan	94096	104331	116807	123537	125068	4	83	126197	126733	126082	3	82
Bangladesh	51419	66671	88221	109765	118229	4	86	127805	138221	148320	4	86
Viet Nam	34743	42729	53711	66689	73793	2	89	80025	85172	88732	2	88
Philippines	27560	37540	48317	60779	67839	2	91	74779	81266	87007	2	91
Thailand	26392	35745	46718	55580	58242	2	93	59945	61409	62552	2	92
Myanmar	21746	27102	33821	41354	45106	1	94	49178	52942	56303	2	94
Rep Korea	25003	31923	38124	42869	44909	1	96	46677	48090	49123	1	95
DPR Korea	10525	14263	17666	20363	22097	1	96	23798	25097	25987	1	96
Nepal	9263	11327	14498	18772	21456	1	97	24299	27276	30355	1	97
Malaysia	8140	10853	13763	17891	20140	1	98	22201	24014	25558	1	98
Sri Lanka	9889	12514	14819	17057	17928	1	98	18438	19073	19774	1	98
Australia	10276	12535	14569	16888	17866	1	99	18743	19562	20258	1	99
Cambodia	5433	6938	6498	8695	10024	0	99	11185	12229	13275	0	99
Hong Kong SAR, China	3075	3942	5039	5705	6123	0	99	6371	6452	6491	0	99
Lao PDR	2177	2713	3205	4202	4882	0	99	5592	6336	7112	0	99
Papua NG	1920	2422	3086	3839	4301	0	100	4799	5322	5849	0	100
New Zealand	2372	2820	3113	3360	3561	0	100	3746	3920	4083	0	100
Singapore	1634	2075	2415	3016	3327	0	100	3572	3736	3828	0	100
Mongolia	959	1256	1663	2216	2463	0	100	2727	2993	3244	0	100
Bhutan	868	1047	1292	1645	1770	0	100	2001	2248	2512	0	100
Fiji	394	520	634	726	784	0	100	844	905	962	0	100
Solomon Is.	118	161	227	320	378	0	100	443	514	589	0	100
Brunei	82	130	193	257	293	0	100	324	348	366	0	100
Maldives	99	121	158	216	254	0	100	297	343	394	0	100
New Caledonia	79	108	143	168	181	0	100	194	204	212	0	100
Vanuatu	64	87	117	149	169	0	100	191	216	243	0	100
Samoa	112	145	155	160	165	0	100	174	187	203	0	100
Tonga	64	82	92	96	98	0	100	100	101	103	0	100
Kiribati	40	50	61	72	78	0	100	86	94	104	0	100
Cook Is.	18	21	18	18	19	0	100	20	21	22	0	100
Total	1594545	2003743	2453133	2934455	3154489	100	100	3354161	3527032	3670470	100	100

** Please note that Bangladesh overtakes Japan between 1995 and 2000 under both "medium" and "low" fertility scenarios.

Table A6.15: Asia-Pacific Population Growth Rates - Medium Fertility Variant (% p.a) Ranked according to 1990-95 growth rates)

COUNTRY	1950-1955	1970-1975	1990-1995	1995-2000	2000-2005	2005-2010
Solomon Is.	2.61	3.38	3.32	3.21	3.05	2.83
Maldives	1.77	2.46	3.31	3.44	3.22	3.01
Laos	2.05	2.18	3.00	3.07	2.80	2.59
Cambodia	2.15	0.46	2.84	2.23	1.86	1.76
Pakistan	2.24	2.57	2.68	2.71	2.59	2.44
Nepal	1.51	2.44	2.67	2.53	2.39	2.26
Brunei Darusalaam	5.56	4.30	2.64	2.10	1.66	1.35
Vanuatu	2.84	3.10	2.49	2.49	2.47	2.45
Malaysia	2.72	2.44	2.37	2.04	1.74	1.51
Guam	1.11	2.20	2.30	1.81	1.44	1.20
Papua New Guinea	1.56	2.38	2.27	2.24	2.15	2.01
Philippines	2.61	2.72	2.20	2.02	1.80	1.57
Mongolia	2.20	2.84	2.11	2.10	2.00	1.83
Viet Nam	1.33	2.34	2.02	1.75	1.51	1.21
Singapore	4.90	1.73	1.96	1.50	1.04	0.70
India	2.00	2.24	1.76	1.61	1.44	1.26
Myanmar	1.85	2.32	1.74	1.80	1.61	1.44
Korea, DPR	-1.40	2.67	1.63	1.58	1.22	0.89
Kiribati	2.25	2.05	1.61	1.90	1.96	1.96
Indonesia	1.69	2.41	1.54	1.47	1.31	1.07
New Caledonia	3.35	4.16	1.53	1.48	1.34	1.15
Fiji	3.01	2.03	1.53	1.56	1.58	1.50
Bangladesh	1.70	2.77	1.49	1.64	1.73	1.64
Bhutan	1.65	2.04	1.46	2.77	2.59	2.45
Hong Kong SAR, China	4.64	2.18	1.42	0.80	0.26	0.17
Tuvalu	1.22	1.52	1.42	1.34	1.25	1.17
New Zealand	2.26	1.79	1.16	1.09	1.10	1.05
Australia	2.21	2.07	1.13	1.06	1.04	1.00
China, main	1.87	2.12	1.02	0.85	0.70	0.59
Sri Lanka	2.55	1.67	1.00	0.97	1.07	1.10
Thailand	2.58	2.92	0.94	0.76	0.69	0.61
Korea, Rep	1.02	2.00	0.93	0.86	0.72	0.58
Cook Is	2.02	-1.60	0.93	0.90	0.87	0.84
Samoa	2.84	0.88	0.57	1.13	1.60	1.91
Tonga	5.11	1.51	0.36	0.38	0.40	0.42
Japan	1.43	1.33	0.25	0.22	0.12	-0.02
Tokelau	0.49	-1.38	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Niue	4.55	-4.12	-2.15	-1.90	-1.66	-1.40
Taiwan Province of China
Norfolk Is
ASIA-PACIFIC
S/C Asia	2.03	2.35	1.92	1.81	1.69	1.53
S/E Asia	1.92	2.44	1.73	1.60	1.41	1.20
Oceania	2.21	2.09	1.37	1.33	1.32	1.26
Eastern Asia	1.75	2.12	1.02	0.85	0.66	0.59
WORLD	1.78	1.95	1.45	1.37	1.27	1.20
Developing	1.21	2.37	1.77	1.65	1.53	1.43
Developed	1.21	0.79	0.40	0.26	0.17	0.15

Table A6.16: Asia-Pacific Population Growth Rates - Low Fertility Variant (% p.a.) Ranked according to 1990-95 growth rates)

COUNTRY	1950-1955	1970-1975	1990-1995	1995-2000	2000-2005	2005-2010
Solomon Is.	2.61	3.38	3.32	3.17	2.98	2.72
Maldives	1.77	2.46	3.31	3.09	2.91	2.74
Laos	2.05	2.18	3.00	2.72	2.50	2.31
Cambodia	2.15	0.46	2.84	2.19	1.79	1.64
Pakistan	2.24	2.57	2.68	2.67	2.51	2.32
Nepal	1.51	2.44	2.67	2.14	2.31	2.49
Brunei Darusalaam	5.56	4.30	2.64	1.98	1.43	1.00
Vanuatu	2.84	3.10	2.49	2.45	2.40	2.34
Malaysia	2.72	2.44	2.37	1.95	1.57	1.25
Guam	1.11	2.20	2.30	1.72	1.28	0.95
Papua New Guinea	1.56	2.38	2.27	2.19	2.07	1.89
Philippines	2.61	2.72	2.20	1.95	1.66	1.37
Mongolia	2.20	2.84	2.11	2.04	1.86	1.61
Viet Nam	1.33	2.34	2.02	1.62	1.25	0.82
Singapore	4.90	1.73	1.96	1.42	0.90	0.48
India	2.00	2.24	1.76	1.52	1.27	0.99
Myanmar	1.85	2.32	1.74	1.73	1.47	1.23
Korea, DPR	-1.40	2.67	1.63	1.48	1.06	0.70
Kiribati	2.25	2.05	1.61	1.84	1.88	1.84
Indonesia	1.69	2.41	1.54	1.36	1.06	0.67
New Caledonia	3.35	4.16	1.53	1.36	1.09	0.77
Fiji	3.01	2.03	1.53	1.47	1.40	1.22
Bangladesh	1.70	2.77	1.49	1.56	1.57	1.41
Bhutan	1.65	2.04	1.46	2.46	2.33	2.22
Hong Kong SAR, China	4.64	2.18	1.42	0.79	0.25	0.12
Tuvalu	1.22	1.52	1.42	1.28	1.15	1.01
New Zealand	2.26	1.79	1.16	1.01	0.91	0.81
Australia	2.21	2.07	1.13	0.96	0.86	0.70
China, main	1.87	2.12	1.02	0.80	0.53	0.38
Sri Lanka	2.55	1.67	1.00	0.56	0.68	0.72
Thailand	2.58	2.92	0.94	0.58	0.48	0.37
Korea, Rep	1.02	2.00	0.93	0.77	0.60	0.42
Cook Is	2.02	-1.60	0.93	0.85	0.76	0.68
Samoa	2.84	0.88	0.57	1.05	1.46	1.71
Tonga	5.11	1.51	0.36	0.33	0.30	0.27
Japan	1.43	1.33	0.25	0.18	0.08	-0.10
Tokelau	0.49	-1.38	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Niue	4.55	-4.12	-2.15	-1.96	-1.75	-1.57
Taiwan Province of China
Norfolk Is
ASIA-PACIFIC
Eastern Asia	1.75	2.12	1.02	0.76	0.51	0.35
S/C Asia	2.03	2.35	1.92	1.72	1.52	1.29
S/E Asia	1.92	2.44	1.73	1.48	1.20	0.88
Oceania	2.21	2.09	1.37	1.24	1.15	1.01
WORLD	1.78	1.95	1.45	1.28	1.11	0.97
Developed	1.21	0.79	0.40	0.20	0.07	-0.02
Developing	1.21	2.37	1.77	1.55	1.35	1.18