The world’s population in 1927

1.99B 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, Czechoslovakia, Weimar Republic, French Indochina, French West Africa, Korea, Mandatory Palestine, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1927

RegionPopulation
1Russian SFSR93.9M
2Weimar Republic62.7M
3Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN48.5M
4Empire of Japan48.3M
5United Kingdom44.1M
6French Third Republic40.2M
7Sichuan39.7M
8Shandong39.3M
9Henan36.1M
10Kingdom of Italy36.1M

The largest relative change from 1926: Byelorussian SSR (+302k people).