The world’s population in 1951

2.53B 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, Germany, French Indochina, French West Africa, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1951

RegionPopulation
1Japan (Allied occupation)67.4M
2Uttar Pradesh63.2M
3Brazil53.8M
4Java49.3M
5United Kingdom49.0M
6Federal Republic of Germany, DE47.6M
7Shandong47.3M
8Sichuan46.2M
9East Pakistan44.5M
10Henan42.8M

The largest relative change from 1950: Mountain, US (+6.7M people).