The world’s population in 1958

2.89B 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 1958

RegionPopulation
1Japan73.4M
2Uttar Pradesh70.6M
3Brazil67.2M
4Sichuan65.6M
5Java57.5M
6East Pakistan51.8M
7Shandong51.8M
8Federal Republic of Germany, DE51.2M
9United Kingdom50.7M
10Henan46.9M

The largest relative change from 1957: Beijing, CN (+382k people).