section_path: Demographics
section_name: Demographics
paragraph_text: Demographics
  
  As of 1 July 2019, the population of the ASEAN was about 655 million people (8.5% of the world population). In ASEAN in 2019, 55.2 million people were children age 0–4 and 46.3 million people were older than 65. This corresponds to 8.4% and 7.1% of the total ASEAN population. The region's population growth is 1.1% per year. Thailand is the lowest at 0.2% per year, and Cambodia is the highest at 1.9% per year. ASEAN's sex ratio is 0.996 males per female, with 326.4 million males and 327.8 million females.