The world’s population in 2018

7.54B 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 2018

RegionPopulation
1Henan98.6M
2Egypt97.1M
3Ethiopia96.5M
4West Bengal95.8M
5Vietnam95.4M
6Dem. Rep. Congo94.9M
7Southeast, BR87.2M
8Jiangsu84.5M
9Sichuan83.2M
10Germany, DE83.0M

The largest relative change from 2017: Guatemala (−1.2M people).