The world’s population in 1948
2.42B people. One hexagon represents 100,000 people.
Open the 1948 map →Drawn as they stood de facto, the map this year includes French Equatorial Africa, Czechoslovakia, Allied-occupied Germany, French Indochina, French West Africa, Yugoslavia.
Largest populations in 1948
| Region | Population | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (Allied occupation) | 63.4M |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh | 61.2M |
| 3 | Allied-occupied Germany | 54.2M |
| 4 | Brazil | 49.8M |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 48.3M |
| 6 | Java | 47.1M |
| 7 | Shandong | 45.7M |
| 8 | Sichuan | 44.8M |
| 9 | East Pakistan | 42.9M |
| 10 | Henan | 41.4M |
The largest relative change from 1947: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (south) (−219k people).