The world’s population in 1946
2.37B people. One hexagon represents 100,000 people.
Open the 1946 map →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
| Region | Population | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN | 59.9M |
| 2 | Japan (Allied occupation) | 59.5M |
| 3 | Allied-occupied Germany | 58.1M |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 47.9M |
| 5 | Brazil | 47.7M |
| 6 | Java | 46.0M |
| 7 | Shandong | 45.0M |
| 8 | Sichuan | 44.3M |
| 9 | British India (Bengal) | 42.2M |
| 10 | Henan | 40.9M |
The largest relative change from 1945: Provisional Government of the French Republic (+3.4M people).