This is a list of Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

n countries by population. It is sourced from the global list of countries by population as of December 2007.

A part of Kazakhstan which lie within Europe is included here. Cyprus, on the other hand, is normally included in Europe for political and cultural reasons, and is therefore excluded from this list, although it is traditionally considered part of Asia geographically.

Pos	Country	Population
-	Asia	3,999,000,000
1		1,357,022,986
2		1,131,043,000
3		231,627,000
4		175,829,000
5		158,665,000
6		127,718,000
7		88,706,300
8		87,375,000
9		71,208,000
10		67,070,000
11		48,798,000
12		48,512,000
13		28,993,000
14		28,196,000
15		27,544,000
16		27,372,000
17		27,145,000
18		27,123,977
19		23,790,000
20		23,170,321
21		22,198,110
22		20,727,063
23		19,299,000
24		15,422,000
25		14,444,000
26		7,208,520
27		7,206,000
28		6,736,000
29		5,924,000
30		5,859,000
31		5,317,000
32		4,965,000
33		4,436,000
34		4,380,000
35		4,099,000
36		4,017,000
37		2,851,000
38		2,629,000
39		2,595,000
40		1,155,000
41		841,000
42		753,000
43		658,000
44		481,000
45		390,000
46		306,000