In commemoration of World Population Day on July 11, please support and help by clicking on the “Play and Help! Feed a Hungry Person” icon on the left.

FreeRice.com offers a simple point and click learning game to hone your vocabulary. For each word you get right, 20 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations World Food Program. The first FreeRice donations have gone to purchase rice in Cambodia, to provide take-home rations of four kilograms of rice for two months to 13,500 pregnant and nursing women. Over 38 billion grains have been donated to date.

Below are the population figures for some key markets in the Asia Pacific (in decreasing order).

• China – 1.32 billion population
• India – 1.15 billion
• Indonesia – 235 million
• Japan – 127 million
• Philippines – 89 million
• Vietnam – 87 million
• Thailand – 64 million
• South Korea – 48 million
• Malaysia – 27 million
• Taiwan – 23 million
• Australia – 21 million
• Hong Kong – 7 million
• Singapore – 4.6 million
• New Zealand – 4.3 million