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The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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.
By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time, [2] and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km 2 (13.7 million sq mi), [3] 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area.
28 Οκτ 2024 · British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies— colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government.
The British Empire increased the wealth and prestige of Britain from 1600. When the colonies became a drain on British resources, Britain grew weary of the struggle to maintain empire and...
26 Νοε 2019 · It also oversaw around 412 million inhabitants, or around 23% of the world’s population at the time, writes the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The British Empire reached an apogee in the early years of the twentieth century. It survived the difficulties of the inter-war years, but the Second World War triggered its collapse; the 1942–1956 period saw the total collapse of the state-empire, and the consequent re-ordering of its component territories, peripheral and metropolitan.
