The world’s population in 1928

2.00B 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 1928

RegionPopulation
1Russian SFSR95.1M
2Weimar Republic63.0M
3Empire of Japan49.0M
4Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN48.8M
5United Kingdom44.3M
6French Third Republic40.4M
7Sichuan39.9M
8Shandong39.5M
9Java36.5M
10Henan36.3M

The largest relative change from 1927: Byelorussian SSR (+302k people).