The world’s population in 1946

2.37B 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, Mandatory Palestine, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1946

RegionPopulation
1Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN59.9M
2Japan (Allied occupation)59.5M
3Allied-occupied Germany58.1M
4United Kingdom47.9M
5Brazil47.7M
6Java46.0M
7Shandong45.0M
8Sichuan44.3M
9British India (Bengal)42.2M
10Henan40.9M

The largest relative change from 1945: Provisional Government of the French Republic (+3.4M people).