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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I don’t know about all of Asia but in China they used to have a ton of kids. In ancient times people died a lot and it was always good to have “backups”. they just kept on having kids. Plus the fact that sons were valued more than daughters so if you had several daughters it wasn’t uncommon to go until you have some sons

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