The world’s population in 1930

2.04B 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 1930

RegionPopulation
1Russian SFSR97.5M
2Weimar Republic63.7M
3Empire of Japan50.4M
4Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN49.5M
5United Kingdom44.7M
6French Third Republic40.7M
7Sichuan40.2M
8Shandong39.9M
9Java37.5M
10British India (Bengal)36.8M

The largest relative change from 1929: Byelorussian SSR (+302k people).