Passage 1

With its two giants, China and India, Asia is the home of the majority of the world’ s population, and Africa is the second most populous continent on the planet.
    Its most populous countries are China with 1. 3 billion and India with 1. 2 billion, followed far behind by the United States, Indonesia and Brazil.
    According to the United Nation’s report, Europe is the only continent whose total population is expected to decline, dropping to 700 million residents in the year 2025, due to its negative birth rate.
    The same report also shows that the population in North America, with Canada, the United States and Mexico, is expected to rise to over 450 million in 2020.