The 2010 world population has a similar breakdown - 35.33% and 52.06% for ages 19 & under and age 29 & under respectively. Yet, Tibet sees an uneven distribution of population, with the greatest density in the southern and eastern parts, while small number of people live in the western and northwestern parts. The data pertain to the population living in Tibet Autonomous Region, regardless of ethnicity. In fact, 35.27% of them are under 19 years old while 54.69% are under 29 years old! Tibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / ; Tibetan: བོད་, Lhasa dialect: [/pʰøː˨˧˩/]; Chinese: 西藏; pinyin: Xīzàng; Sanskrit:तिब्बत) is a region in Asia covering much of the Tibetan Plateau spanning about 2.5 million km 2.
Data were obtained from the 1990 China Census of Population and prior censuses. Of Tibet’s total population, about 18.9 percent live in urban areas and 81.1 percent in rural and pastoral areas. The population pyramid shows that the Tibetan population is mostly young. Tibet's population and Tibetan population.
Guo D. PIP: This article describes Tibet's population size, intercensal growth, and regional distribution.