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MAP · SOUTHEAST ASIA
Where does Southeast Asia live?
Watch population intensity shift across Southeast Asia through the World Bank's available annual series.
SHOW ME THE DATA1960 → 2025 · people
PULSEKITA WORLD MAP1960 — 2025
WB
SourceWorld Bank
1960
TOP 5 · 1960
1Indonesia88.3M
2Vietnam32.5M
3Philippines27.9M
4Thailand26.9M
5Myanmar21.7M
Geometry: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain
196019602025
WBWorld Bankpeople
SourceWorld Bank ↗Live APIHIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
Putting the same World Bank series back onto geography makes the scale difference between Southeast Asian countries immediately visible.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSRegional population, put back on the map.
PulseKita maps World Bank SP.POP.TOTL observations onto Natural Earth 1:110m country boundaries. Fill intensity is scaled against the largest country value in each frame.
- The population series comes from the World Bank; country geometry comes separately from Natural Earth.
- Singapore is represented from Natural Earth's tiny-countries point layer because it is too small to appear as a polygon at 1:110m scale.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Primary evidencePopulation, total (SP.POP.TOTL)
- 2TransformationPulseKita maps World Bank SP.POP.TOTL observations onto Natural Earth 1:110m country boundaries. Fill intensity is scaled against the largest country value in each frame.
- 3Published visualWorld map
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE1960 → 2025
UNITpeople
SOURCEmachine readable
UPDATEDLive API