The world’s population in 1945

2.35B 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, Allied-occupied Germany, French Indochina, French West Africa, Korea, Mandatory Palestine, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1945

RegionPopulation
1Allied-occupied Germany59.6M
2Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN59.2M
3Empire of Japan56.0M
4United Kingdom47.7M
5Brazil46.6M
6Java45.5M
7Shandong44.7M
8Sichuan44.1M
9British India (Bengal)41.9M
10Henan40.6M

The largest relative change from 1944: Albania (German occupation and partisan government) (−675k people).