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East Asia & Pacific

Population 2,390,873,921 (2025) · 30 economies · World Bank region aggregate

Population
2,390,873,921
2025
Price level
0.44
US = 1.00
Pay index
0.67×
US = 1.00
Real earning power
1.50×
pay ÷ price level

Real earning power — does pay outrun the cost of living?

1.50×

Pay here runs at 0.67× the national wage against a cost of living -55.6% vs the nation — a net earning advantage of +50.5%.

Pay premium
-33.2%
Cost-of-living premium
-55.6%
Net advantage
+50.5%

Coarse pay mapping. Unweighted mean of two owned pay-regions (Greater China, Asia/Pacific). EAS is broader (37 economies incl. SE Asia & Pacific islands) than either — treat as directional. Pay is the owned differential for Greater China + Asia/Pacific, rebased to US = 1.00; the price level is a population-weighted World Bank roll-up. Read the number as directional.

The region at a glance

Price level
0.44
US = 1.00
Buys vs US$
2.25×
same USD, local prices
Population
2,390,873,921
2025
Economies
30
in the WB region
Price-level coverage
30
countries · 2024–2025
Pay index
0.67×
US = 1.00

Compare regions

East Asia & Pacificagainst the North America (US-anchor) reference and the World aggregate — the metrics side by side. “—” = honest-absent.

East Asia & Pacific
this region
North America (US anchor)
World
Price level (US=1)0.440.980.46
Pay index (US=1)0.67×0.95×—
Real earning power1.50×0.96×—
Population2,390,873,921383,501,0658,215,424,893
Decide comp for this region → AnyComp Turn East Asia & Pacific's cost-of-living and earning-power signal into a defensible pay decision — strategy, priorities, and several scenarios, never one option.

Methodology

Grain. World Bank standard region aggregate. A region aggregate rolls a whole continent into one number — coarse by construction. REGION grain only. Metro/city international pricing needs per-city data and is a later phase.

Price level. price_level_index = PA.NUS.PPP / PA.NUS.FCRF per country (latest non-null year, carry-forward), population-weighted (SP.POP.TOTL) to the WB region. Region aggregates have no native PPP/FCRF (no single currency), so the region PLI is rolled up from member countries. Source: World Bank Indicators API (PA.NUS.PPP ÷ PA.NUS.FCRF), CC BY 4.0 (+ WB terms).

Population. World Bank Indicators API, SP.POP.TOTL — WB region aggregate value (native, not summed). CC BY 4.0.

Pay. LICENSING: only the RELATIVE % differential is ingested (derived, safe). No raw survey $ values are stored. Rebased to US = 1.00 to compose with the price level. Owned pay-regions are mapped to World Bank regions best-effort; coarse mappings are flagged inline.

Signature. realEarningPower = payIndexUsBase / priceLevelIndex — does regional pay outrun the regional cost of living, relative to the US worker?