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Rank	Country /Territory	Population 1935 estimate	Percentage of World Population
—	World	3,514,245,075	—
1	China	1,000,089,235	28.5%
2	(including colonies) constituents British Raj – 652,408,776 British Africa – 70,202,925 constituents Nigeria – 19,753,000 South Africa — 10,160,000 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan – 6,342,500 Tanganyika – 5,372,812 Kenya – 4,500,000 Uganda – 3,747,200 Sierra Leone – 1,974,700 Nyasaland – 1,680,000 Southern Rhodesia – 1,400,000 Northern Rhodesia – 1,390,000 British Cameroons – 1,024,425 Basutoland – 622,000 Mauritius – 422,000 British Somaliland – 350,000 Bechuanaland Protectorate – 275,000 Gambia – 205,000 Swaziland – 158,000 Zanzibar – 150,088 Seychelles – 31,500 United Kingdom – 66,796,807 constituents England - 56,286,961 Scotland - 5,463,300 Wales - 3,152,879 Northern Ireland - 1,893,667 Canada – 36,026,676 Burma – 32,748,784 Malaya – 31,505,208 Australia – 23,932,502 Hong Kong — 7,474,200 New Zealand – 4,609,755 British West Indies – 3,702,600 constituents Jamaica – 1,178,600 British Honduras – 55,000 Trinidad and Tobago – 476,000 British Guiana – 339,000 Windward Islands – 216,100 constituents Grenada – 89,000 Saint Lucia – 69,100 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – 58,000 Barbados – 177,000 Leeward Islands – 142,400 constituents Dominica – 50,600 Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla – 37,600 Antigua and Barbuda – 34,100 Montserrat – 13,700 British Virgin Islands – 6,400 The Bahamas – 67,000 Bermuda – 30,500 Mandatory Palestine - 1,466,500 Papua and New Guinea – 1,292,000 Aden – 994,000 Jordan — 991,000 Bhutan – 470,000 Sarawak — 460,000 British Western Pacific Territories – 425,820 constituents Fiji — 210,500 Solomon Islands — 95,000 New Hebrides — 43,000 Tonga — 35,000 Gilbert and Ellice Islands — 33,400 Niue — 4,000 Nauru – 3,400 Tokelau — 1,300 Pitcairn Islands – 220 Cyprus — 393,000 Muscat and Oman — 386,000 Newfoundland – 314,900 North Borneo — 300,000 Malta – 269,000 Trucial States — 110,000 Maldives — 87,000 Kuwait — 50,000 Brunei – 38,000 Gibraltar – 19,000 Saint Helena – 4,700 Falkland Islands – 2,400	934,265,033	26.6%
3	Japan (including colonies) constituents Japan – 114,827,832 Manchukuo – 109,674,521 Korea – 51,705,905 Formosa – 15,552,211	291,760,469	8.3%
4	Soviet Union subdivisions Russian SFSR - 146,748,590 Ukrainian SSR - 41,762,138 Uzbek SSR - 33,905,000 Kazakh SSR - 18,448,000 Azerbaijan SSR - 9,981,400 Byelorussian SSR - 9,452,000 Tajik SSR - 9,121,600 Kirghiz SSR - 6,523,500 Turkmen SSR - 5,240,000 Georgian SSR - 3,723,000 Armenian SSR - 2,965,000	287,870,228	8.2%
5	United States constituents United States – 189,569,843 Philippines – 43,629,412 Cuba – 5,919,993 Puerto Rico – 1,100,000 Guam – 12,000 American Samoa – 6,000	240,237,248	6.8%
6	Dutch Empire constituents Dutch East Indies – 130,680,727 Netherlands – 17,584,731 Gold Coast – 3,700,300 Surinam – 590,100 Netherlands Antilles – 44,000	152,599,858	4.3%
7	France (including colonies) subdivisions France – 67,399,000 French Indochina – 32,890,171 French North Africa – 16,920,000 constituents French Algeria – 7,517,000 French Morocco – 6,622,200 French Tunisia – 2,781,000 French Equatorial Africa – 4,421,000 constituents French Congo – 2,400,000 French Chad – 2,021,000 French West Africa – 13,393,200 constituents French Sudan – 3,635,100 French Upper Volta – 3,308,000 French Guinea – 2,065,500 Colony of Niger – 1,809,600 French Dahomey – 1,532,000 French Togoland – 1,043,000 Syria – 2,516,000 French Cameroons – 2,381,272 Lebanon – 1,168,000 French Comoros – 137,000 French Polynesia – 51,200 French Guiana – 24,000	141,249,643	4.0%
7	Brazil	104,706,198	3.0%
8	Germany	85,190,556	2.4%
9	Italy (including colonies) subdivisions Italy – 60,257,566 Italian Libya – 6,959,000 Italian Somaliland – 6,360,000 Italian Eritrea – 3,601,000 Italian Islands of the Aegean – 132,489 Italian concession of Tientsin – 6,261	77,316,316	2.2%
10	Ethiopia	72,709,299	2.1%
11	Thailand	66,636,630	1.9%
12	Turkey	59,614,362	1.7%
13	Spain (including colonies) subdivisions Spain – 47,564,296 Spanish Guinea – 1,454,789 Spanish Sahara – 502,585 Spanish Morocco – 450,000 Tangier International Zone - 60,000	50,031,670	1.4%
14	Argentina	45,808,747	1.3%
15	Poland	42,885,900	1.2%
16	Mexico	42,771,079	1.2%
17	Iran	38,425,919	1.1%
18	Yugoslavia	32,105,942	0.9%
19	Egypt	26,923,353	0.8%
20	Belgium (including colonies) subdivisions Belgium – 12,556,297 Belgian Congo – 10,304,100 Ruanda-Urundi – 3,800,000	26,660,397	1.2%
21	Romania	24,348,251	0.7%
22	Portugal (including colonies) subdivisions Portugal – 10,295,909 Mozambique - 5,086,500 Angola - 3,740,800 Portuguese India - 624,100 constituents Goa - 583,700 Dadra and Nagar Haveli - 40,400 Portuguese Timor - 480,000 Portuguese Guinea - 420,000 Macau - 374,700 Cape Verde - 181,300 São Tomé and Príncipe - 61,000	21,264,309	0.9%
23	Hungary	16,818,391	0.7%
24	Colombia	12,574,571	0.5%
25	Afghanistan	12,506,347	0.5%

References

• Wood, James, ed. (1907), The Nuttall Encyclopædia , London and New York: Frederick Warne .—Originally this article incorporated statistics from the Nuttall Encyclopedia published in 1907. The list includes the populations of all countries, states and territories listed in the Encyclopedia with an estimated population. The populations listed here, rounded to the nearest 1,000, represent the best estimate of population by the editors of the Nuttall Encyclopedia.

The other main sources are:

• "Population statistics: historical demography", Population statistics, 31 October 2006, archived from the original on 23 February 2015, retrieved 19 August 2018
• Table of contents. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica  – via Wikisource. Page has search box.
• "(GES,P) Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas mit Jahrbuch 1905, herausgegeben auf Veranlassung der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft. Berlin 1905 - Verteilung des Kolonialbesitzes der europäischen Staaten", Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien im Internet e.V. (ZUM.de) (in German), retrieved 19 August 2018

1907 Pop