| | China, like India, is significant partly because it has so many people. Each has a population of about 1 billion persons today, and combined one third of the entire world now lives in China or India. Most people in the world are Asian, which includes Japan, North and South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan, and many other countries. | | China, like India, is significant partly because it has so many people. Each has a population of about 1 billion persons today, and combined one third of the entire world now lives in China or India. Most people in the world are Asian, which includes Japan, North and South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan, and many other countries. |