The world’s population in 1952

2.57B 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 1952

RegionPopulation
1Japan68.5M
2Uttar Pradesh64.3M
3Brazil55.8M
4Java50.4M
5United Kingdom49.2M
6Shandong48.3M
7Federal Republic of Germany, DE48.1M
8Sichuan47.1M
9East Pakistan45.5M
10Henan43.7M

The largest relative change from 1951: Tripura, IN (+50k people).