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  1. WWII: share of total population lost per country 1939-1945

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    Updated Aug 9, 2024
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    Statista (2024). WWII: share of total population lost per country 1939-1945 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351638/second-world-war-share-total-population-loss/
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    Aug 9, 2024
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    Area covered
    World
    Description

    It is estimated that the Second World War was responsible for the deaths of approximately 3.76 percent of the world's population between 1939 and 1945. In 2022, where the world's population reached eight billion, this would be equal to the death of around 300 million people.

    The region that experienced the largest loss of life relative to its population was the South Seas Mandate - these were former-German territories given to the Empire of Japan through the Treaty of Versailles following WWI, and they make up much of the present-day countries of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. territory), and Palau. Due to the location and strategic importance of these islands, they were used by the Japanese as launching pads for their attacks on Pearl Harbor and in the South Pacific, while they were also taken as part of the Allies' island-hopping strategy in their counteroffensive against Japan. This came at a heavy cost for the local populations, a large share of whom were Japanese settlers who had moved there in the 1920s and 1930s. Exact figures for both pre-war populations and wartime losses fluctuate by source, however civilian losses in these islands were extremely high as the Japanese defenses resorted to more extreme measures in the war's final phase.

  2. WWII: pre-war populations of selected Allied and Axis countries and...

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    Updated Jan 1, 1998
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    Statista (1998). WWII: pre-war populations of selected Allied and Axis countries and territories 1938 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1333819/pre-wwii-populations/
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    Jan 1, 1998
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    1938
    Area covered
    World
    Description

    In 1938, the year before the outbreak of the Second world War, the countries with the largest populations were China, the Soviet Union, and the United States, although the United Kingdom had the largest overall population when it's colonies, dominions, and metropole are combined. Alongside France, these were the five Allied "Great Powers" that emerged victorious from the Second World War. The Axis Powers in the war were led by Germany and Japan in their respective theaters, and their smaller populations were decisive factors in their defeat. Manpower as a resource In the context of the Second World War, a country or territory's population played a vital role in its ability to wage war on such a large scale. Not only were armies able to call upon their people to fight in the war and replenish their forces, but war economies were also dependent on their workforce being able to meet the agricultural, manufacturing, and logistical demands of the war. For the Axis powers, invasions and the annexation of territories were often motivated by the fact that it granted access to valuable resources that would further their own war effort - millions of people living in occupied territories were then forced to gather these resources, or forcibly transported to work in manufacturing in other Axis territories. Similarly, colonial powers were able to use resources taken from their territories to supply their armies, however this often had devastating consequences for the regions from which food was redirected, contributing to numerous food shortages and famines across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Men from annexed or colonized territories were also used in the armies of the war's Great Powers, and in the Axis armies especially. This meant that soldiers often fought alongside their former-enemies. Aftermath The Second World War was the costliest in human history, resulting in the deaths of between 70 and 85 million people. Due to the turmoil and destruction of the war, accurate records for death tolls generally do not exist, therefore pre-war populations (in combination with other statistics), are used to estimate death tolls. The Soviet Union is believed to have lost the largest amount of people during the war, suffering approximately 24 million fatalities by 1945, followed by China at around 20 million people. The Soviet death toll is equal to approximately 14 percent of its pre-war population - the countries with the highest relative death tolls in the war are found in Eastern Europe, due to the intensity of the conflict and the systematic genocide committed in the region during the war.

  3. Global population 1800-2100, by continent

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    Statista, Global population 1800-2100, by continent [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/997040/world-population-by-continent-1950-2020/
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    Area covered
    World
    Description

    The world's population first reached one billion people in 1805, and reached eight billion in 2022, and will peak at almost 10.2 billion by the end of the century. Although it took thousands of years to reach one billion people, it did so at the beginning of a phenomenon known as the demographic transition; from this point onwards, population growth has skyrocketed, and since the 1960s the population has increased by one billion people every 12 to 15 years. The demographic transition sees a sharp drop in mortality due to factors such as vaccination, sanitation, and improved food supply; the population boom that follows is due to increased survival rates among children and higher life expectancy among the general population; and fertility then drops in response to this population growth. Regional differences The demographic transition is a global phenomenon, but it has taken place at different times across the world. The industrialized countries of Europe and North America were the first to go through this process, followed by some states in the Western Pacific. Latin America's population then began growing at the turn of the 20th century, but the most significant period of global population growth occurred as Asia progressed in the late-1900s. As of the early 21st century, almost two-thirds of the world's population lives in Asia, although this is set to change significantly in the coming decades. Future growth The growth of Africa's population, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, will have the largest impact on global demographics in this century. From 2000 to 2100, it is expected that Africa's population will have increased by a factor of almost five. It overtook Europe in size in the late 1990s, and overtook the Americas a few years later. In contrast to Africa, Europe's population is now in decline, as birth rates are consistently below death rates in many countries, especially in the south and east, resulting in natural population decline. Similarly, the population of the Americas and Asia are expected to go into decline in the second half of this century, and only Oceania's population will still be growing alongside Africa. By 2100, the world's population will have over three billion more than today, with the vast majority of this concentrated in Africa. Demographers predict that climate change is exacerbating many of the challenges that currently hinder progress in Africa, such as political and food instability; if Africa's transition is prolonged, then it may result in further population growth that would place a strain on the region's resources, however, curbing this growth earlier would alleviate some of the pressure created by climate change.

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    China Population (1950-2025)

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    Updated May 31, 2025
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    MACROTRENDS (2025). China Population (1950-2025) [Dataset]. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/chn/china/population
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    csvAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    May 31, 2025
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    MACROTRENDS
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    China
    Description
    Total current population for China in 2025 is 1,424,381,924, a 0.06% decline from 2024.
    <ul style='margin-top:20px;'>
    
    <li>Total population for China in 2024 was <strong>1,425,178,782</strong>, a <strong>1.03% increase</strong> from 2023.</li>
    <li>Total population for China in 2023 was <strong>1,410,710,000</strong>, a <strong>0.1% decline</strong> from 2022.</li>
    <li>Total population for China in 2022 was <strong>1,412,175,000</strong>, a <strong>0.01% decline</strong> from 2021.</li>
    </ul>Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
    
  5. WWII: share of the male population mobilized by selected countries 1937-1945...

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    Updated Aug 9, 2024
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    Statista (2024). WWII: share of the male population mobilized by selected countries 1937-1945 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342462/wwii-share-male-mobilization-by-country/
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    Aug 9, 2024
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    Area covered
    World
    Description

    During the Second World War, the three Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Finland mobilized the largest share of their male population. For the Allies, the Soviet Union mobilized the largest share of men, as well as the largest total army of any country, but it was restricted in its ability to mobilize more due to the impact this would have on its economy. Other notable statistics come from the British Empire, where a larger share of men were drafted from Dominions than from the metropole, and there is also a discrepancy between the share of the black and white populations from South Africa.

    However, it should be noted that there were many external factors from the war that influenced these figures. For example, gender ratios among the adult populations of many European countries was already skewed due to previous conflicts of the 20th century (namely WWI and the Russian Revolution), whereas the share of the male population eligible to fight in many Asian and African countries was lower than more demographically developed societies, as high child mortality rates meant that the average age of the population was much lower.

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    Poland Population (1950-2025)

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    Updated May 31, 2025
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    MACROTRENDS (2025). Poland Population (1950-2025) [Dataset]. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/pol/poland/population
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    csvAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    May 31, 2025
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    MACROTRENDS
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Poland
    Description
    Total current population for Poland in 2025 is 39,616,730, a 1.5% decline from 2024.
    <ul style='margin-top:20px;'>
    
    <li>Total population for Poland in 2024 was <strong>40,221,726</strong>, a <strong>9.63% increase</strong> from 2023.</li>
    <li>Total population for Poland in 2023 was <strong>36,687,353</strong>, a <strong>0.36% decline</strong> from 2022.</li>
    <li>Total population for Poland in 2022 was <strong>36,821,749</strong>, a <strong>0.43% decline</strong> from 2021.</li>
    </ul>Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
    
  7. Estimated pre-war Jewish populations and deaths 1930-1945, by country

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    Updated Sep 16, 2014
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    Statista (2014). Estimated pre-war Jewish populations and deaths 1930-1945, by country [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070564/jewish-populations-deaths-by-country/
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    Sep 16, 2014
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    Area covered
    Germany, Poland, Russia
    Description

    The Holocaust was the systematic extermination of Europe's Jewish population in the Second World War, during which time, up to six million Jews were murdered as part of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". In the context of the Second World War, the term "Holocaust" is traditionally used to reference the genocide of Europe's Jews, although this coincided with the Nazi regime's genocide and ethnic cleansing of an additional eleven million people deemed "undesirable" due to their ethnicity, beliefs, disability or sexuality (among others). During the Holocaust, Poland's Jewish population suffered the largest number of fatalities, with approximately three million deaths. Additionally, at least one million Jews were murdered in the Soviet Union, while Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Yugoslavia also lost the majority of their respective pre-war Jewish populations. The Holocaust in Poland In the interwar period, Europe's Jewish population was concentrated in the east, with roughly one third living in Poland; this can be traced back to the Middle Ages, when thousands of Jews flocked to Eastern Europe to escape persecution. At the outbreak of the Second World War, it is estimated that there were 3.4 million Jews living in Poland, which was approximately ten percent of the total population. Following the German invasion of Poland, Nazi authorities then segregated Jews in ghettos across most large towns and cities, and expanded their network of concentration camps throughout the country. In the ghettos, civilians were deprived of food, and hundreds of thousands died due to disease and starvation; while prison labor was implemented under extreme conditions in concentration camps to fuel the German war effort. In Poland, six extermination camps were also operational between December 1941 and January 1945, which saw the mass extermination of approximately 2.7 million people over the next three years (including many non-Poles, imported from other regions of Europe). While concentration camps housed prisoners of all backgrounds, extermination camps were purpose-built for the elimination of the Jewish race, and over 90% of their victims were Jewish. The majority of the victims in these extermination camps were executed by poison gas, although disease, starvation and overworking were also common causes of death. In addition to the camps and ghettos, SS death squads (Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators also committed widespread atrocities across Eastern Europe. While the majority of these atrocities took place in the Balkan, Baltic and Soviet regions, they were still prevalent in Poland (particularly during the liquidation of the ghettos), and the Einsatzgruppen alone are estimated to have killed up to 1.3 million Jews throughout the Holocaust. By early 1945, Soviet forces had largely expelled the German armies from Poland and liberated the concentration and extermination camps; by this time, Poland had lost roughly ninety percent of its pre-war Jewish population, and suffered approximately three million further civilian and military deaths. By 1991, Poland's Jewish population was estimated to be just 15 thousand people, while there were fewer than two thousand Jews recorded as living in Poland in 2018.

  8. Japan Population Census: Male: Age 30 to 34 Years

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    Updated Feb 15, 2025
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    CEICdata.com (2025). Japan Population Census: Male: Age 30 to 34 Years [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/japan/population-annual/population-census-male-age-30-to-34-years
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    Feb 15, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 1960 - Dec 1, 2015
    Area covered
    Japan
    Variables measured
    Population
    Description

    Japan Population Census: Male: Age 30 to 34 Years data was reported at 3,684,747.000 Person in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 4,221,011.000 Person for 2010. Japan Population Census: Male: Age 30 to 34 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 3,849,696.500 Person from Dec 1920 (Median) to 2015, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,421,545.000 Person in 1980 and a record low of 1,805,587.000 Person in 1945. Japan Population Census: Male: Age 30 to 34 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistical Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.G002: Population: Annual.

  9. World Religion Project - Regional Religion Dataset

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    The Association of Religion Data Archives, World Religion Project - Regional Religion Dataset [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XZABV
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    Dataset funded by
    The University of California, Davis
    The John Templeton Foundation
    Description

    The World Religion Project (WRP) aims to provide detailed information about religious adherence worldwide since 1945. It contains data about the number of adherents by religion in each of the states in the international system. These numbers are given for every half-decade period (1945, 1950, etc., through 2010). Percentages of the states' populations that practice a given religion are also provided. (Note: These percentages are expressed as decimals, ranging from 0 to 1, where 0 indicates that 0 percent of the population practices a given religion and 1 indicates that 100 percent of the population practices that religion.) Some of the religions (as detailed below) are divided into religious families. To the extent data are available, the breakdown of adherents within a given religion into religious families is also provided.

    The project was developed in three stages. The first stage consisted of the formation of a religion tree. A religion tree is a systematic classification of major religions and of religious families within those major religions. To develop the religion tree we prepared a comprehensive literature review, the aim of which was (i) to define a religion, (ii) to find tangible indicators of a given religion of religious families within a major religion, and (iii) to identify existing efforts at classifying world religions. (Please see the original survey instrument to view the structure of the religion tree.) The second stage consisted of the identification of major data sources of religious adherence and the collection of data from these sources according to the religion tree classification. This created a dataset that included multiple records for some states for a given point in time. It also contained multiple missing data for specific states, specific time periods and specific religions. The third stage consisted of cleaning the data, reconciling discrepancies of information from different sources and imputing data for the missing cases.

    The Regional Religion Dataset: The unit of analysis is the region, measured at five-year intervals. The Correlates of War regional breakdown is used with one modification: the Oceania category is added for Correlates of War nation numbers 900 and above.

  10. Slovakia Population: Age: 95 to 99

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    CEICdata.com (2025). Slovakia Population: Age: 95 to 99 [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/slovakia/population-annual/population-age-95-to-99
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    Jan 15, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 2005 - Dec 1, 2016
    Area covered
    Slovakia
    Variables measured
    Population
    Description

    Slovakia Population: Age: 95 to 99 data was reported at 3,524.000 Person in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,865.000 Person for 2015. Slovakia Population: Age: 95 to 99 data is updated yearly, averaging 772.000 Person from Dec 1945 (Median) to 2016, with 72 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,524.000 Person in 2016 and a record low of 220.000 Person in 1945. Slovakia Population: Age: 95 to 99 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Slovakia – Table SK.G002: Population: Annual.

  11. Change in the Soviet population and its trajectory 1941-1946, by age and...

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    Updated Dec 31, 2015
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    Statista (2015). Change in the Soviet population and its trajectory 1941-1946, by age and gender [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260605/soviet-population-changes-wwii-gender-age/
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    Dec 31, 2015
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    Area covered
    Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union
    Description

    Russian estimates suggest that the total population of the Soviet Union in 1941 was 195.4 million people, before it fell to 170.5 million in 1946 due to the devastation of the Second World War. Not only did the USSR's population fall as a consequence of the war, but fertility and birth rates also dropped due to the disruption. Hypothetical estimates suggest that, had the war not happened and had fertility rates remained on their pre-war trajectory, then the USSR's population in 1946 would have been 39 million higher than in reality. Gender differences When it comes to gender differences, the Soviet male population fell from 94 million in 1941, to 74 million in 1946, and the female population fell from 102 to 96 million. While the male and female population fell by 19 and 5.5 million respectively, hypothetical estimates suggest that both populations would have grown by seven million each had there been no war. In actual figures, adult males saw the largest change in population due to the war, as a drop of 18 to 21 percent was observed across the three age groups. In contrast, the adult female population actually grew between 1941 and 1946, although the population under 16 years fell by a number similar to that observed in the male population due to the war's impact on fertility.

  12. Japan Population Census: Male: Age 25 to 29 Years

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    CEICdata.com (2025). Japan Population Census: Male: Age 25 to 29 Years [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/japan/population-annual/population-census-male-age-25-to-29-years
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    Feb 15, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 1960 - Dec 1, 2015
    Area covered
    Japan
    Variables measured
    Population
    Description

    Japan Population Census: Male: Age 25 to 29 Years data was reported at 3,255,717.000 Person in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3,691,723.000 Person for 2010. Japan Population Census: Male: Age 25 to 29 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 3,875,527.000 Person from Dec 1920 (Median) to 2015, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,426,289.000 Person in 1975 and a record low of 1,603,664.000 Person in 1945. Japan Population Census: Male: Age 25 to 29 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistical Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.G002: Population: Annual.

  13. Jewish population projections if the Holocaust had not occurred 1940-2000

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    Updated Jan 1, 2001
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    Statista (2001). Jewish population projections if the Holocaust had not occurred 1940-2000 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/
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    Jan 1, 2001
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    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    The worldwide Jewish population experienced a marked decline during the 20th century due to the murder of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust, the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. While there were almost 17 million Jewish people alive before the Holocaust, or the Shoah as it is known in Hebrew, after the war this was only around 11.5 million people. By using several different fertility scenarios, demographers have been able to reconstruct what the Jewish population would be in modern times if the genocide of Jewish people had not happened. In scenarios where there was a low or very low fertility rate, the Jewish population in 2000 would be in the range of 26 to 33 million people, double what it was in reality. In a scenario where the population growth rate was the same as that observed in the Jewish population after WWII, which was extremely low, the global Jewish population would have risen to over 20 million people.

  14. Population of the UK 1871-2023

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    Updated Jun 4, 2025
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    Statista Research Department (2025). Population of the UK 1871-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.ai-chatbox.pro/?_=%2Fstudy%2F10353%2Funited-kingdom-statista-dossier%2F%23XgboD02vawLYpGJjSPEePEUG%2FVFd%2Bik%3D
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    Jun 4, 2025
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    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    In 2023, the population of the United Kingdom reached 68.3 million, compared with 67.6 million in 2022. The UK population has more than doubled since 1871 when just under 31.5 million lived in the UK and has grown by around 8.2 million since the start of the twenty-first century. For most of the twentieth century, the UK population steadily increased, with two noticeable drops in population occurring during World War One (1914-1918) and in World War Two (1939-1945). Demographic trends in postwar Britain After World War Two, Britain and many other countries in the Western world experienced a 'baby boom,' with a postwar peak of 1.02 million live births in 1947. Although the number of births fell between 1948 and 1955, they increased again between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, with more than one million people born in 1964. Since 1964, however, the UK birth rate has fallen from 18.8 births per 1,000 people to a low of just 10.2 in 2020. As a result, the UK population has gotten significantly older, with the country's median age increasing from 37.9 years in 2001 to 40.7 years in 2022. What are the most populated areas of the UK? The vast majority of people in the UK live in England, which had a population of 57.7 million people in 2023. By comparison, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland had populations of 5.44 million, 3.13 million, and 1.9 million, respectively. Within England, South East England had the largest population, at over 9.38 million, followed by the UK's vast capital city of London, at 8.8 million. London is far larger than any other UK city in terms of urban agglomeration, with just four other cities; Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and Glasgow, boasting populations that exceed one million people.

  15. Population of Germany 1800-2020

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    Updated Aug 9, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Population of Germany 1800-2020 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1066918/population-germany-historical/
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    Aug 9, 2024
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    Area covered
    Germany
    Description

    In 1800, the region of Germany was not a single, unified nation, but a collection of decentralized, independent states, bound together as part of the Holy Roman Empire. This empire was dissolved, however, in 1806, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras in Europe, and the German Confederation was established in 1815. Napoleonic reforms led to the abolition of serfdom, extension of voting rights to property-owners, and an overall increase in living standards. The population grew throughout the remainder of the century, as improvements in sanitation and medicine (namely, mandatory vaccination policies) saw child mortality rates fall in later decades. As Germany industrialized and the economy grew, so too did the argument for nationhood; calls for pan-Germanism (the unification of all German-speaking lands) grew more popular among the lower classes in the mid-1800s, especially following the revolutions of 1948-49. In contrast, industrialization and poor harvests also saw high unemployment in rural regions, which led to waves of mass migration, particularly to the U.S.. In 1886, the Austro-Prussian War united northern Germany under a new Confederation, while the remaining German states (excluding Austria and Switzerland) joined following the Franco-Prussian War in 1871; this established the German Empire, under the Prussian leadership of Emperor Wilhelm I and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. 1871 to 1945 - Unification to the Second World War The first decades of unification saw Germany rise to become one of Europe's strongest and most advanced nations, and challenge other world powers on an international scale, establishing colonies in Africa and the Pacific. These endeavors were cut short, however, when the Austro-Hungarian heir apparent was assassinated in Sarajevo; Germany promised a "blank check" of support for Austria's retaliation, who subsequently declared war on Serbia and set the First World War in motion. Viewed as the strongest of the Central Powers, Germany mobilized over 11 million men throughout the war, and its army fought in all theaters. As the war progressed, both the military and civilian populations grew increasingly weakened due to malnutrition, as Germany's resources became stretched. By the war's end in 1918, Germany suffered over 2 million civilian and military deaths due to conflict, and several hundred thousand more during the accompanying influenza pandemic. Mass displacement and the restructuring of Europe's borders through the Treaty of Versailles saw the population drop by several million more.

    Reparations and economic mismanagement also financially crippled Germany and led to bitter indignation among many Germans in the interwar period; something that was exploited by Adolf Hitler on his rise to power. Reckless printing of money caused hyperinflation in 1923, when the currency became so worthless that basic items were priced at trillions of Marks; the introduction of the Rentenmark then stabilized the economy before the Great Depression of 1929 sent it back into dramatic decline. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi government disregarded the Treaty of Versailles' restrictions and Germany rose once more to become an emerging superpower. Hitler's desire for territorial expansion into eastern Europe and the creation of an ethnically-homogenous German empire then led to the invasion of Poland in 1939, which is considered the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Again, almost every aspect of German life contributed to the war effort, and more than 13 million men were mobilized. After six years of war, and over seven million German deaths, the Axis powers were defeated and Germany was divided into four zones administered by France, the Soviet Union, the UK, and the U.S.. Mass displacement, shifting borders, and the relocation of peoples based on ethnicity also greatly affected the population during this time. 1945 to 2020 - Partition and Reunification In the late 1940s, cold war tensions led to two distinct states emerging in Germany; the Soviet-controlled east became the communist German Democratic Republic (DDR), and the three western zones merged to form the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. Additionally, Berlin was split in a similar fashion, although its location deep inside DDR territory created series of problems and opportunities for the those on either side. Life quickly changed depending on which side of the border one lived. Within a decade, rapid economic recovery saw West Germany become western Europe's strongest economy and a key international player. In the east, living standards were much lower, although unemployment was almost non-existent; internationally, East Germany was the strongest economy in the Eastern Bloc (after the USSR), though it eventually fell behind the West by the 1970s. The restriction of movement between the two states also led to labor shortages in t...

  16. United Kingdom Population

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    CEICdata.com (2025). United Kingdom Population [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-kingdom/population
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    Feb 15, 2025
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 2012 - Dec 1, 2023
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    United Kingdom
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    Key information about United Kingdom population

    • The United Kingdom population reached 68.3 million people in Dec 2023, compared with the previously reported figure of 67.6 million people in Dec 2022
    • The data reached an all-time high of 68.3 million people in Dec 2023 and a record low of 48.9 million people in Dec 1946

    CEIC shifts year-end for annual Population. The Office for National Statistics provides annual mid-year Population ending the second quarter of each year.


    Further information about United Kingdom population data

    • In the latest reports, United Kingdom Unemployment Rate dropped to 3.9 % in Oct 2023
    • Monthly earnings of the United Kingdom population was 3,547.0 USD in Jul 2024
    • United Kingdom Labour Force Participation Rate dropped to 62.8 % in Oct 2023

  17. Population of the United States 1500-2100

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    Statista, Population of the United States 1500-2100 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1067138/population-united-states-historical/
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    United States
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    In the past four centuries, the population of the Thirteen Colonies and United States of America has grown from a recorded 350 people around the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1610, to an estimated 346 million in 2025. While the fertility rate has now dropped well below replacement level, and the population is on track to go into a natural decline in the 2040s, projected high net immigration rates mean the population will continue growing well into the next century, crossing the 400 million mark in the 2070s. Indigenous population Early population figures for the Thirteen Colonies and United States come with certain caveats. Official records excluded the indigenous population, and they generally remained excluded until the late 1800s. In 1500, in the first decade of European colonization of the Americas, the native population living within the modern U.S. borders was believed to be around 1.9 million people. The spread of Old World diseases, such as smallpox, measles, and influenza, to biologically defenseless populations in the New World then wreaked havoc across the continent, often wiping out large portions of the population in areas that had not yet made contact with Europeans. By the time of Jamestown's founding in 1607, it is believed the native population within current U.S. borders had dropped by almost 60 percent. As the U.S. expanded, indigenous populations were largely still excluded from population figures as they were driven westward, however taxpaying Natives were included in the census from 1870 to 1890, before all were included thereafter. It should be noted that estimates for indigenous populations in the Americas vary significantly by source and time period. Migration and expansion fuels population growth The arrival of European settlers and African slaves was the key driver of population growth in North America in the 17th century. Settlers from Britain were the dominant group in the Thirteen Colonies, before settlers from elsewhere in Europe, particularly Germany and Ireland, made a large impact in the mid-19th century. By the end of the 19th century, improvements in transport technology and increasing economic opportunities saw migration to the United States increase further, particularly from southern and Eastern Europe, and in the first decade of the 1900s the number of migrants to the U.S. exceeded one million people in some years. It is also estimated that almost 400,000 African slaves were transported directly across the Atlantic to mainland North America between 1500 and 1866 (although the importation of slaves was abolished in 1808). Blacks made up a much larger share of the population before slavery's abolition. Twentieth and twenty-first century The U.S. population has grown steadily since 1900, reaching one hundred million in the 1910s, two hundred million in the 1960s, and three hundred million in 2007. Since WWII, the U.S. has established itself as the world's foremost superpower, with the world's largest economy, and most powerful military. This growth in prosperity has been accompanied by increases in living standards, particularly through medical advances, infrastructure improvements, clean water accessibility. These have all contributed to higher infant and child survival rates, as well as an increase in life expectancy (doubling from roughly 40 to 80 years in the past 150 years), which have also played a large part in population growth. As fertility rates decline and increases in life expectancy slows, migration remains the largest factor in population growth. Since the 1960s, Latin America has now become the most common origin for migrants in the U.S., while immigration rates from Asia have also increased significantly. It remains to be seen how immigration restrictions of the current administration affect long-term population projections for the United States.

  18. Slovakia Population: Male

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    CEICdata.com (2020). Slovakia Population: Male [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/slovakia/population-annual/population-male
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    Aug 6, 2020
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 2006 - Dec 1, 2017
    Area covered
    Slovakia
    Variables measured
    Population
    Description

    Slovakia Population: Male data was reported at 2,656,514.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,651,684.000 Person for 2016. Slovakia Population: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 2,473,708.000 Person from Dec 1945 (Median) to 2017, with 73 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,656,514.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 1,652,248.000 Person in 1946. Slovakia Population: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Slovakia – Table SK.G002: Population: Annual.

  19. Population of Japan 1800-2020

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    Statista (2024). Population of Japan 1800-2020 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1066956/population-japan-historical/
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    Japan
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    In 1800, the population of Japan was just over 30 million, a figure which would grow by just two million in the first half of the 19th century. However, with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the restoration of the emperor in the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan would begin transforming from an isolated feudal island, to a modernized empire built on Western models. The Meiji period would see a rapid rise in the population of Japan, as industrialization and advancements in healthcare lead to a significant reduction in child mortality rates, while the creation overseas colonies would lead to a strong economic boom. However, this growth would slow beginning in 1937, as Japan entered a prolonged war with the Republic of China, which later grew into a major theater of the Second World War. The war was eventually brought to Japan's home front, with the escalation of Allied air raids on Japanese urban centers from 1944 onwards (Tokyo was the most-bombed city of the Second World War). By the war's end in 1945 and the subsequent occupation of the island by the Allied military, Japan had suffered over two and a half million military fatalities, and over one million civilian deaths.

    The population figures of Japan were quick to recover, as the post-war “economic miracle” would see an unprecedented expansion of the Japanese economy, and would lead to the country becoming one of the first fully industrialized nations in East Asia. As living standards rose, the population of Japan would increase from 77 million in 1945, to over 127 million by the end of the century. However, growth would begin to slow in the late 1980s, as birth rates and migration rates fell, and Japan eventually grew to have one of the oldest populations in the world. The population would peak in 2008 at just over 128 million, but has consistently fallen each year since then, as the fertility rate of the country remains below replacement level (despite government initiatives to counter this) and the country's immigrant population remains relatively stable. The population of Japan is expected to continue its decline in the coming years, and in 2020, it is estimated that approximately 126 million people inhabit the island country.

  20. Slovakia Population: Age: Less Than 1

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    CEICdata.com (2025). Slovakia Population: Age: Less Than 1 [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/slovakia/population-annual/population-age-less-than-1
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 2005 - Dec 1, 2016
    Area covered
    Slovakia
    Variables measured
    Population
    Description

    Slovakia Population: Age: Less Than 1 data was reported at 58,277.000 Person in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 56,110.000 Person for 2015. Slovakia Population: Age: Less Than 1 data is updated yearly, averaging 80,703.000 Person from Dec 1945 (Median) to 2016, with 72 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 98,263.000 Person in 1979 and a record low of 50,519.000 Person in 2002. Slovakia Population: Age: Less Than 1 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Slovakia – Table SK.G002: Population: Annual.

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Statista (2024). WWII: share of total population lost per country 1939-1945 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351638/second-world-war-share-total-population-loss/
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WWII: share of total population lost per country 1939-1945

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World
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It is estimated that the Second World War was responsible for the deaths of approximately 3.76 percent of the world's population between 1939 and 1945. In 2022, where the world's population reached eight billion, this would be equal to the death of around 300 million people.

The region that experienced the largest loss of life relative to its population was the South Seas Mandate - these were former-German territories given to the Empire of Japan through the Treaty of Versailles following WWI, and they make up much of the present-day countries of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. territory), and Palau. Due to the location and strategic importance of these islands, they were used by the Japanese as launching pads for their attacks on Pearl Harbor and in the South Pacific, while they were also taken as part of the Allies' island-hopping strategy in their counteroffensive against Japan. This came at a heavy cost for the local populations, a large share of whom were Japanese settlers who had moved there in the 1920s and 1930s. Exact figures for both pre-war populations and wartime losses fluctuate by source, however civilian losses in these islands were extremely high as the Japanese defenses resorted to more extreme measures in the war's final phase.

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