Southeast Asia's population race

Watch how the population ranking across Southeast Asia changes through the World Bank's available annual series.

World BankLive API

SHOW ME THE DATA1960 → 2025 · people

VIEW DATA ASSame source · different visual lens

1960

11Brunei88.3K

1Indonesia88.3M

7Cambodia5.45M

8Laos2.12M

5Myanmar21.7M

6Malaysia7.96M

3Philippines27.9M

9Singapore1.65M

4Thailand26.9M

10Timor-Leste468.1K

2Vietnam32.5M

196019602025

WBWorld BankValues: people

SourceWorld Bank ↗Live APIHIGH CONFIDENCE

Method & notes

IN BRIEF

Regional context turns a domestic statistic into a comparative story and shows why PulseKita should be Malaysia-first rather than Malaysia-only.

METHOD & LIMITATIONS

One regional story, one global source.

PulseKita reads the World Bank indicator SP.POP.TOTL for 11 Southeast Asian countries, keeps non-null annual observations, and ranks countries by population for each available year.

The available start and end years are determined by the World Bank API rather than hard-coded by PulseKita.
Different countries can have revisions or gaps in individual years; the visual shows the latest values returned by the source.

Evidence trail

EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology

1
Primary evidencePopulation, total (SP.POP.TOTL)
2
TransformationPulseKita reads the World Bank indicator SP.POP.TOTL for 11 Southeast Asian countries, keeps non-null annual observations, and ranks countries by population for each available year.
3
Published visualAnimated race

Source

HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary

COVERAGE1960 → 2025

UNITpeople

SOURCEmachine readable

UPDATEDLive API

primaryPopulation, total (SP.POP.TOTL)