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Economies of Asia

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Economy of Mongolia

The economy of Mongolia, also called the Mongolian economy, is an upper-middle-income economy where copper and coal mining drive exports and government revenue while herding remains a broad base.

Economy of Myanmar

The economy of Myanmar, also known as the Burmese economy, is a low-income Southeast Asian economy of about US$81.7 billion, built on natural gas and garment manufacturing.

Economy of Nepal

The economy of Nepal is a small, landlocked, services-led economy with GDP of about Rs 5.7 trillion in 2023/24 that depends heavily on remittances from workers abroad.

Economy of North Korea

The economy of North Korea is a planned, highly opaque economy where over 70% of people trade in informal markets and China accounts for 98% of official trade.

Economy of Oman

The economy of Oman, or the Omani economy, is a hydrocarbon-dependent economy producing about 1 million barrels of oil per day, with non-oil activities near 70 percent of GDP.

Economy of Pakistan

The economy of Pakistan is a large economy averaging about 5.2 percent annual growth over six decades, repeatedly hit by balance-of-payments crises, the worst in 2022–24.

Economy of Qatar

The economy of Qatar, also known as the Qatari economy, is a high-income, hydrocarbon-centered economy where hydrocarbons provide about 80 percent of government revenues and exports.

Economy of Saudi Arabia

The economy of Saudi Arabia is an oil-anchored economy of about US$1.25 trillion that is diversifying under the state-led Vision 2030 program launched in 2016.

Economy of Singapore

The economy of Singapore is a wealthy, trade-dependent city-state economy of 6.0 million people, with GDP per capita of US$98,878 in 2025 and goods exports exceeding 100% of GDP.

Economy of South Asia

The economy of South Asia has a combined nominal GDP of about $4.6 trillion in 2025, dominated by India, which accounts for roughly 80 percent of output.

Economy of South Korea

The economy of South Korea, also called the South Korean economy, is a high-income, export-driven economy that grew from postwar poverty to 14th-largest globally by 2023.

Economy of Southeast Asia

The economy of Southeast Asia is the combined economy of the eleven ASEAN members, which produced US$3.9 trillion in GDP in 2024, the fifth-largest in the world.

Economy of Sri Lanka

The economy of Sri Lanka is a US$99 billion economy that defaulted on US$51 billion of external debt in April 2022 and is recovering under a 48-month IMF program.

Economy of Syria

The economy of Syria is a collapsed, partially dollarized conflict economy worth roughly $21 to $29 billion in 2024, now rebuilding under a transitional government after Assad's fall.

Economy of Taiwan

The economy of Taiwan is a trade-dependent economy of about US$884 billion in nominal GDP, built on export-led industrialization and centered on semiconductor manufacturing, which accounts for 60% of global foundry revenue.

Economy of Tajikistan

The economy of Tajikistan, also known as the Tajik economy, is a lower-middle-income economy in Central Asia where remittances from migrant workers, mostly in Russia, finance consumption and imports.

Economy of Thailand

The economy of Thailand, also called the Thai economy, is a large, export-oriented Southeast Asian economy of about US$515-577 billion in GDP that grew 2.5% in 2024.

Economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council

The economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council is the combined economy of its six member states, a hydrocarbon-exporting bloc whose nominal GDP reached USD 2.3 trillion in 2024.

Economy of the Maldives

The economy of the Maldives is a small island economy of 1,192 islands built on tourism and tuna fishing, with debt at 129.7 percent of GDP in 2025.

Economy of the Middle East

The economy of the Middle East is dominated by hydrocarbon exports, sovereign wealth funds, and transit chokepoints, contrasting oil-rich Gulf monarchies with resource-poor economies like Egypt and Yemen.

Economy of the Philippines

The economy of the Philippines is a services-led, consumption-driven economy of about US$462 billion, with remittances equal to about 8 to 9 percent of GDP.

Economy of the State of Palestine

The economy of the State of Palestine, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is service-dominated, operates without its own currency, and depends on Israel for trade and revenue.

Economy of the United Arab Emirates

The economy of the United Arab Emirates is a diversified Gulf economy where trade, finance, and tourism generate about three quarters of output, though oil still dominates exports.

Economy of Turkmenistan

The economy of Turkmenistan is a state-dominated, gas-exporting economy in Central Asia whose GDP was $60.6 billion in 2023, with hydrocarbons supplying about nine tenths of exports.

Economy of Uzbekistan

The economy of Uzbekistan, also called the Uzbek economy, is a doubly landlocked Central Asian economy of 38 million people, growing about 6% yearly since 2017 reforms.

Economy of Vietnam

The economy of Vietnam, also called the Vietnamese economy, is an export-oriented market economy that grew 8.02% in 2025 to 514 billion USD in output.

Economy of Yemen

The economy of Yemen is a fragmented, war-shrunk economy, with real output down about 27 percent since 2014 and two rival central banks issuing rival rial banknotes.

Energy in Japan

Energy in Japan describes how the country supplies its power and fuels, importing most of them, with fossil fuels at 88% of supply in 2019.

Four Asian Tigers

The Four Asian Tigers, also known as the Four Dragons, are Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, four economies with exceptionally rapid, export-led industrialization from the 1960s.

Historical GDP of China

Historical GDP of China reconstructs the country's total output from Song-dynasty estimates to official statistics, tracking its fall to 4.9% of world GDP by 1978.