The world’s population in 1947
2.39B people. One hexagon represents 100,000 people.
Open the 1947 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 1947
| Region | Population | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (Allied occupation) | 61.6M |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, IN | 60.5M |
| 3 | Allied-occupied Germany | 56.1M |
| 4 | Brazil | 48.7M |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 48.1M |
| 6 | Java | 46.6M |
| 7 | Shandong | 45.3M |
| 8 | Sichuan | 44.6M |
| 9 | British India (Bengal) | 42.6M |
| 10 | Henan | 41.2M |
The largest relative change from 1946: Latvian SSR (+163k people).