The world’s population in 1960

2.99B 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 1960

RegionPopulation
1Japan75.7M
2Uttar Pradesh72.7M
3Brazil71.0M
4Sichuan66.6M
5Java60.0M
6East Pakistan54.1M
7Shandong53.0M
8Federal Republic of Germany, DE52.3M
9United Kingdom51.2M
10Henan48.0M

The largest relative change from 1959: Middle Atlantic, US (+12.4M people).