The world’s population in 2023

7.90B 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 2023

RegionPopulation
1West Bengal99.1M
2Henan98.2M
3Southeast, BR90.3M
4Madhya Pradesh85.9M
5Jiangsu85.3M
6Iran85.0M
7Sichuan83.7M
8Germany, DE83.5M
9Rajasthan80.4M
10Western UP, IN79.4M

The largest relative change from 2022: Equatorial Guinea (+229k people).