3-1 TERRITORY AND POPULATION
Country or Territory	Area (10 000 sq.km)	1996 Mid-year Population (10 000 persons)	1991-1995 Annual Average Growth Rate (%)	1996 Population Density (persons/sq.km)
World	13381.6①	576775	1.2	43
Asia	3174.8	348803	1.3	110
China②	960.0	122389	1.2	127
Japan	37.8	12576	0.3	333
India③	297.4	93078	1.8	316
Indonesia	190.5	19681	1.6	103
Philippines	30.0	7190	2.2	240
Thailand	51.3	6000	0.9	117
Malaysia	33.0	2057	2.4	62
Singapore	0.06	304	2.0	5067
Pakistan	79.6	13415	2.9	169
Myanmar	67.7	4592	1.8	68
Bangladesh	14.4	12007	1.6	834
Turkey	78.0	6269	1.7	80
Mongolia	156.7	235	2.1	1
Korea D.P.Rep.	12.3	2247	1.6	183
Korea Rep.	9.9	4554	0.9	460
Viet Nam	33.0	7518	2.1	228
Africa	3031.2	73873	2.3	24
Egypt	100.2	6060	2.0	60
Nigeria	92.4	11502	2.9	124
Europe	2298.8	72878	0.2	32
Germany	35.7	8191	0.6	229
United Kingdom	24.2	5878	0.3	243
France	55.2	5837	0.5	106
Italy	30.1	5783	0.2	192
Czech Rep.	7.9	1032	-0.1	131
Poland	31.3	3862	0.3	123
Hungary	9.3	1019	-0.3	110
Romania	23.8	2261	-0.4	95
Bulgaria	11.1	836	-0.7	75
Yugoslavia F.R.	10.2	1057	0.9	104
Russian Fed.	1707.5	14774	...	9
North America	2239.1	46125	1.1	21
United States	937.3	26656	1.0	28
Canada	997.1	2996	1.3	3
Mexico	196.7	9658	1.9	49
South America	1783.2	32231	1.4	18
Brazil	854.7	15787	1.5	18
Argentina	277.7	3522	1.3	13
Oceania	853.6	2869	1.2	3
Australia	768.2	1829	1.1	2
New Zealand	27.1	357	1.4	13

Note:

① The data exclude the Antarctic Continent. If included, it would be 149.50 million sq.km.

② The populationof China refers to the population of the year-end.

③ Excluding Jammu, Kashmir and Sikkim.