The world’s population in 1954

2.68B 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 West Africa, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Yugoslavia.

Largest populations in 1954

RegionPopulation
1Japan70.5M
2Uttar Pradesh66.4M
3Sichuan63.5M
4Brazil59.6M
5Java52.6M
6United Kingdom49.7M
7Shandong49.4M
8Federal Republic of Germany, DE49.2M
9East Pakistan47.5M
10Henan44.7M

The largest relative change from 1953: Beijing, CN (+265k people).