eli5: Why do Asian countries have such high populations?

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What the title says. India and china alone have almost 3 billion. Asia has over half the worlds population. Why has this historically been the case even though many Asian countries developed far slower than European countries.

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>Why has this historically been the case even though many Asian countries developed far slower than European countries.

on this note, this is a common result of western education where the focus is on America and Wester Europe. Ex. China was basically the most advanced and successful culture after Rome for like 1500 years. their history has been continuously documented for like 4000 years and their cultural influence is found in every east asian culture. India has a similarly long and complex history but people act like it had no major civilizations until the british arrived

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