east asia is home to about what percentage of the worlds population
As of right 2019, Asia's population as a whole is equivalent to 59.66% of the total world population, which is around 7.2 billion people.
In East Asia alone, which consists of China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, their population sums up to about 1.7 billion people, which accounts for about 23.6% of the World Population.