The world’s population in 1933

2.10B 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, Nazi Germany, French Indochina, French West Africa, Korea, Mandatory Palestine, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1933

RegionPopulation
1Russian SFSR101.2M
2Nazi Germany64.8M
3Empire of Japan52.7M
4Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN51.1M
5United Kingdom45.3M
6French Third Republic41.1M
7Sichuan41.0M
8Shandong40.9M
9Java39.1M
10British India (Bengal)37.8M

The largest relative change from 1932: Mongolia (+51k people).