The world’s population in 2006

6.48B 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 2006

RegionPopulation
1Guangdong96.2M
2Bihar93.5M
3Shandong93.4M
4Henan92.9M
5West Bengal85.7M
6Eastern UP, IN83.8M
7Vietnam83.3M
8Punjab, PK82.4M
9Germany, DE82.3M
10Sichuan81.2M

The largest relative change from 2005: United Arab Emirates (+616k people).