14.3%
of land area
53.8%
of global population
56.9%
of food calories
19.6%
of key biodiversity areas
11.8%
of protected areas
15.1%
of carbon storage
Southern, Eastern, and Southeastern Asia and Indonesia
Asia sustains more than half of Earth's human population while only ranking fifth out of eight world regions in terms of land area. Asia has the fifth highest percentage contribution to global protected area and the third highest percentage of key biodiversity area. With the primary concentration of village anthromes, Asia produces over half of the world’s food calories, making it the highest contributor to food caloric production by far. Asia stores the third highest percentage of vegetated carbon compared to the other regions.