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East Asia Regional Statistics Source: CIA Area of Region Total (sq mi) 4,552,799 Land 4,445,576 Water 107,223 Arable Land 437,988 Permanent Crops 3,288 Permanent Pastures 2,086,208 Forests Woodlands 745,931 Other 1,279,413 Irrigated 222,539 Population for Region Total 1,495,234,743 0-14 years (%) 23.38 15-64 years (%) 68.24 65 years and over (%) 8.38 Population growth rate (%) 1.03 Births Deaths for Region Birth rate/1000 15.49 Death rate/1000 6.39 Net migration rate/1000 1.22 Infant mortality rate/1000 18.30 Life expectancy at birth-total population (years) 74.37 Total fertility rate (children born/woman) TFR 1.81 Ethnicity of Region China Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% Macau Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other Japan Japanese 99.4%, Korean 0.6% Ethnicity of Region North Korea racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese South Korea homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) Ethnicity of Region Mongolia Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic (of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4% Taiwan Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2% Religions of Region China Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 2%-3%, Christian 1% (est.) Japan observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%) Macau Buddhist 50%, Roman Catholic 15%, none and other 35% Religions of Region North Korea traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way) note:? autonomous religious activities now almost nonexistent; government-sponsored religious groups exist to provide illusion of religious freedom