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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Free labour. If these countries urbanize, they will go through the same population declines seen in western countries. Children offer free/cheap labour in agricultural areas. Therefore their production is outweighs their consumption. Once children stop being an asset and become a liability, that is they consume more than they produce, people have less of them.
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