The world’s population in 1912

1.78B people. One hexagon represents 100,000 people.

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Drawn as they stood de facto, the map this year includes French Equatorial Africa, Austrian Galicia, German Empire, French Indochina, French West Africa, Korea, Ottoman Empire.

Largest populations in 1912

RegionPopulation
1United States95.0M
2Russia87.3M
3German Empire64.5M
4Austrian Galicia51.6M
5Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN48.0M
6United Kingdom44.2M
7Empire of Japan39.9M
8French Third Republic39.0M
9Sichuan35.5M
10Shandong34.3M

The largest relative change from 1911: Turkestan (Russian) (−179k people).