The world’s population in 1957

2.83B 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 1957

RegionPopulation
1Japan72.7M
2Uttar Pradesh69.5M
3Brazil65.3M
4Sichuan65.0M
5Java56.2M
6Shandong51.2M
7East Pakistan50.7M
8Federal Republic of Germany, DE50.7M
9United Kingdom50.4M
10Henan46.3M

The largest relative change from 1956: Beijing, CN (+349k people).