The world’s population in 1953

2.64B 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 1953

RegionPopulation
1Japan69.5M
2Uttar Pradesh65.3M
3Sichuan63.0M
4Brazil57.7M
5Java51.5M
6United Kingdom49.5M
7Shandong48.9M
8Federal Republic of Germany, DE48.7M
9East Pakistan46.5M
10Henan44.2M

The largest relative change from 1952: Sichuan (+15.9M people).