East Asia

Regional StatisticsSource: CIA

Area of Region

Total (sq mi) 4,552,799 Land 4,445,576 Water 107,223

Arable Land 437,988 Permanent Crops 3,288 Permanent Pastures 2,086,208 Forests & Woodlands 745,931 Other 1,279,413 Irrigated 222,539

Population for Region

Total 1,495,234,743 0-14 years (%) 23.38 15-64 years (%) 68.24 65 years and over (%) 8.38 Population growth rate (%) 1.03

Births & Deaths for Region

Birth rate/1000 15.49 Death rate/1000 6.39 Net migration rate/1000 1.22 Infant mortality rate/1000 18.30 Life expectancy at birth-total population (years)

74.37 Total fertility rate (children born/woman) TFR

1.81

Ethnicity of Region

China Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi,

Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1%

Macau Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese

and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other Japan

Japanese 99.4%, Korean 0.6%

Ethnicity of Region

North Korea racially homogeneous; there is a small

Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese

South Korea homogeneous (except for about 20,000

Chinese)

Ethnicity of Region

Mongolia Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic

(of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4%

Taiwan Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland

Chinese 14%, aborigine 2%

Religions of Region

China Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 2%-3%,

Christian 1% (est.) Japan

observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%)

Macau Buddhist 50%, Roman Catholic 15%, none

and other 35%

Religions of Region

North Korea traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian

and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way)

note:  autonomous religious activities now almost nonexistent; government-sponsored religious groups exist to provide illusion of religious freedom

South Korea Christian 49%, Buddhist 47%, Confucianist 3%,

Shamanist, Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way), and other 1%

Religions of Region

Mongolia Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism 96%, Muslim

(primarily in the southwest), Shamanism, and Christian 4% (1998)

Taiwan mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist

93%, Christian 4.5%, other 2.5%

Languages of Region

China Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua,

based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages

Literacy Rate (%) 99.5 Japan

Japanese Literacy Rate (%) 99.0

Languages of Region

North Korea Korean Literacy Rate (%) 98.0

South Korea Korean, English widely taught in junior high

and high school Literacy Rate (%) 99.0

Macau Portuguese, Chinese (Cantonese) Literacy Rate (%) 90.0

Languages of Region

Mongolia Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian Literacy Rate (%) 97.0

Taiwan Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min),

Hakka dialects Literacy Rate (%) 94.0

Economy of Region

GDP ($) $8,835,000,000 GDP - real growth rate (%) 3 GDP - per capita ($) $11,754.00 GDP-agriculture (%) 13.0 GDP-industry (%) 35.0 GDP-services (%) 51.0 Labor force 116,000,000 Unemployment rate (%) 4.0

Miscellaneous

Telephones - main lines in use (M) 235.25 Telephones - mobile/cellular (M) 242.11 Radios (M) 594.68 Televisions (M) 512.62 ISPs 102 Airports 925