The world’s population in 1931

2.06B 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 1931

RegionPopulation
1Russian SFSR98.7M
2Weimar Republic64.1M
3Empire of Japan51.2M
4Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN49.8M
5United Kingdom44.9M
6French Third Republic41.1M
7Sichuan40.4M
8Shandong40.2M
9Java38.0M
10British India (Bengal)37.2M

The largest relative change from 1930: French Tunisia (+144k people).