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Although the British Empire emerged from the war as one of the primary victors, regaining all colonial territories that had been lost during the conflict, it had become financially, militarily and logistically exhausted.
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.
At the height of the British Empire its colonies and other territories encompassed nearly one-quarter of the world’s land surface and more than one-quarter of its population. This list describes some of the factors that resulted in the empire’s decline.
In 1940 the British Empire contained a quarter of the world's population and a fifth of its landmass, all of which, bar Ireland, was also at war with Germany. Far from standing alone, as the war spread across the globe, Britain relied on the people, land and resources of its Empire to continue fighting.
World War Two took a heavy toll on Britain and her. empire. in a number of ways: Economic impact: Britain’s economic prominence in the world went through great turmoil during the 20th...
3 Μαρ 2011 · From that Darwin moved on to write a general account of Britain's loss of empire after 1945, published in 1988 as Britain and Decolonisation: the Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World....
In terms of population, on the eve of World War II, Britain and her colonial possessions totaled 500 million inhabitants. The British Empire had an enormous impact on world history. The United Kingdom had about 120 colonies throughout its history , the most colonies in the world, the French colonial empire came second, which had about 80 ...
