The world’s population in 2004

6.31B people. One hexagon represents 100,000 people.

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Drawn as they stood de facto, the map this year includes Germany.

Largest populations in 2004

RegionPopulation
1Guangdong92.4M
2Henan92.3M
3Shandong92.3M
4Bihar89.3M
5West Bengal83.5M
6Germany, DE82.5M
7Sichuan81.6M
8Vietnam81.4M
9Eastern UP, IN81.1M
10Andhra Pradesh78.6M

The largest relative change from 2003: Bahrain, BH (+55k people).