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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Agriculture and geography. Their river valleys gave them flexibility to farm all year. And because they’ve been isolated from the rest of the world because of the mountains and desserts, they were able to civilize more rapidly without dealing with threats from external forces. Most of their conflicts were internal.

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