The world’s population in 1937

2.19B 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 1937

RegionPopulation
1Nazi Germany67.4M
2Empire of Japan55.0M
3Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN53.8M
4United Kingdom46.1M
5Shandong42.2M
6Sichuan42.1M
7Java41.2M
8French Third Republic41.0M
9Brazil39.6M
10British India (Bengal)39.2M

The largest relative change from 1936: French Syria (+105k people).