The world’s population in 1918

1.86B 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, Czechoslovakia, German Empire, French Indochina, French West Africa, Korea, Ottoman Empire, Mandatory Palestine, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1918

RegionPopulation
1Russian SFSR91.2M
2German Empire66.4M
3Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN47.1M
4United Kingdom45.3M
5Empire of Japan43.2M
6French Third Republic38.6M
7Sichuan37.9M
8Shandong37.0M
9Henan34.2M
10Kingdom of Italy33.1M

The largest relative change from 1917: Austrian Galicia (−32.9M people).