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This is a list of countries by population in 1939 (including any dependent, occupied or colonized territories for empires), providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II.
England's economy over the long run: GDP per capita vs. population; England's economy over the long run: GDP vs. population; Fertility rate: children per woman with UN projections; Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region
Between 60 million and 78 million people would go on to die in World War II, which was about 3 percent of the total population. Therefore, analyzing world population by country in 1939 can help provide a helpful overview of how the world looked before one of the most culturally and socially traumatic events in human history.
9 sie 2024 · Over the course of the Second World War approximately 127.2 million people were mobilized. The world's population in 1940 was roughly 2.3 billion, meaning that between five and six percent...
The number of British Civilian deaths (varies from different sources) were in the region of c.60,500 from enemy bombing plus 30,248 merchant mariners. These figures do not include the large number of fatalities indirectly due to the war (Industrial and Mining accidents, Traffic accidents caused by the Black out etc).
9 sie 2024 · Total Second World War fatalities as a share of pre-war populations per country or region between 1939 and 1945.
28 paź 2019 · Some 5,896,000 Britons were mobilised, fewer than 1 in 20 of the total figure of 127,171,000 men and women mobilised around the world, from a total population figure of 2.2 billion in 1939. That figure does, however, comprise almost a quarter of the male population of Britain at the time.
