The cards marked Coming are not broken links — they are a roadmap. Interactive district maps need historic administrative polygons (uyezds, vilayets, kreise, megyék) matched to period census tables. Using today’s oblasts or NUTS units would draw the wrong borders, so we did not fake them.
Live maps include 82 equal-population regions (1914–2050), Austria-Hungary 1910, Russian Empire 1897, Ottoman Empire 1914, Yugoslavia 1931, French Algeria 1936, and Africa 1880. More empires follow as historic GIS is matched.
Overview
- Live
World · 2050
World in 82 equal-population regions, 1914–2050
Scrub 1914 (hand-drawn), 1945, 1990, 2026, and 2050 — the same 82-tile idea as population shifts. Dense belts shatter; empty continents stay huge.
- Equal population
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- Live
World · 2050
World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 2050
UN medium-variant projection partitioned into 82 equal-population regions (~118 million each).
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- Live
World · 2026
World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 2026
Algorithmic equal-population partition for 2026 (~101 million per region) — India and Nigeria claim far more tiles than in 1914.
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- Live
World · 1990
World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 1990
Algorithmic equal-population partition for 1990 (~65 million per region).
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- Live
World · 1945
World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 1945
Algorithmic equal-population partition for 1945 (~29 million per region). Prefer the multi-year scrubber to compare with 1914 and later.
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- Live
World · 1914
World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 1914
The 1914 world carved into 82 regions of about 20 million people each — Europe and eastern China shatter into many tiles; Canada, Siberia, the Congo and Australasia become huge blocs. Equal population first; period borders second. Scrub other years on the multi-year map.
- ~20 million each
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- Coming
World overview · 1914
Great powers & empires, 1914
Interactive state-level overview on 1914 borders: each polity painted by its overall religious majority. District-level maps (Russian uyezds, Ottoman vilayets, German kreise) are listed below and still need historic census GIS.
World overview paused — rendering on full-world historic basemaps was unreliable. Empire-specific maps (starting with Austria-Hungary) are being built instead.
- Orthodox
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Muslim
- Shiʿa
- Hindu
- Buddhist
- Mixed
- Other
Source: Borders: historical-basemaps world_1914. Plurality coding by birthrate.io.
Near East & Balkans
- Live
Ottoman Empire · 1914
Ethnoreligious communities in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1914
Turkish, Arab and Kurdish majorities alongside Greek, Armenian and Assyrian belts — with a separate Sunni / Shia / Alevi religion layer — on modern provinces inside the 1914 Ottoman outline.
- Turkish
- Arab
- Kurdish
- Greek
- Armenian
- Assyrian / Syriac
- Jewish
- Other Christian
- Other / mixed
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- Coming
Qajar Persia · 1900
Peoples of Qajar Persia, c. 1900
Persian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Lur, Baloch, Arab and Turkmen majorities across late Qajar provinces — before the Pahlavi state and modern provincial borders.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Persian
- Azerbaijani
- Kurdish
- Lur / Bakhtiari
- Baloch
- Arab
- Turkmen
- Other
Source: Late Qajar gazetteers and early 20th-century ethnographic surveys (approximate).
- Coming
Safavid Empire · 1700
Faiths of Safavid Persia, c. 1700
Twelfth-Imam Shiʿa core with Sunni, Christian (Armenian, Assyrian), Jewish and Zoroastrian pockets — a schematic reconstruction from travel accounts and provincial notes, not a modern census.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Shiʿa Muslim
- Sunni Muslim
- Armenian Christian
- Assyrian
- Jewish
- Zoroastrian
- Other
Source: Safavid-era travelogues, Armenian diocesan notes and later reconstructions (schematic).
Central Europe
- Live
Austria-Hungary · 1910
Nationalities in Austria-Hungary, c. 1910
Interactive Dual Monarchy map: toggle Empire / Austria / Hungary, switch ethnicity · population · density layers, and dig into district group mixes (e.g. Bratislavský). Minority enclaves included — Sudeten, Szekler, Saxon, southern Slovak Hungarian belt.
- German
- Hungarian
- Czech
- Polish
- Ukrainian / Ruthenian
- Romanian
- South Slavic
- Italian
- Other
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- Coming
Second Polish Republic · 1931
Languages in the Second Polish Republic, 1931
Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Jewish (Yiddish), German and Lithuanian majorities by powiat — interwar Poland between the partitions and 1939.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Belarusian
- Yiddish / Jewish
- German
- Lithuanian
- Other
- Coming
German Empire · 1910
Religion in the German Empire, c. 1910
Protestant north and east, Catholic south and west Rhineland / Bavaria / Alsace — kreis-level faith majorities inside the Kaiserreich.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Protestant
- Catholic
- Jewish
- Other
- Coming
Kingdom of Hungary · 1910
Nationalities in the Kingdom of Hungary, 1910
Transleithania before Trianon: Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, German, Serbian, Ruthenian and Croatian majorities by megye — the map that framed the 1920 border settlement.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Slovak
- German
- Serbian
- Ruthenian
- Croatian
- Other
Source: Kingdom of Hungary census 1910 (mother tongue / nationality).
- Coming
Habsburg Monarchy · 1780
Peoples of the Habsburg Monarchy, Josephinian era
Before the Dual Monarchy: German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, South Slavic and Italian lands under Vienna — early statistical surveys of the Josephinian reforms.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- German
- Czech
- Hungarian
- Polish
- Romanian
- South Slavic
- Italian
- Other
Source: Josephinian cadastral / early Habsburg statistical surveys (late 18th century).
Balkans
- Live
Kingdom of Yugoslavia · 1931
Ethnicity in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1931
Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, Albanians, Hungarians and Germans across banovinas — the interwar kingdom before World War II and the later SFRY.
- Serb
- Croat
- Slovene
- Muslim (Bosniak)
- Macedonian
- Albanian
- Hungarian
- German
- Other
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- Coming
Kingdom of Romania · 1930
Ethnicity in Greater Romania, 1930
Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians and Bulgarians across Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina — the enlarged kingdom after 1918.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Romanian
- Hungarian
- German
- Jewish
- Ukrainian
- Bulgarian
- Other
South Asia
- Coming
British India · 1911
Religions in British India, 1911
Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist and tribal majorities across provinces and princely states — the last empire-wide census before Partition redrew the map.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Hindu
- Muslim
- Sikh
- Christian
- Buddhist
- Tribal / Animist
- Other
East Asia
- Coming
Qing Empire · 1910
Peoples of the Qing Empire, late Qing
Han core provinces, Manchu Northeast, Mongol banners, Tibetan plateau and Turkic Xinjiang — approximate majority peoples on the eve of the 1911 Revolution.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Han
- Manchu
- Mongol
- Tibetan
- Uyghur / Turkic
- Hui
- Other
Source: Late Qing gazetteers and early Republican ethnic compilations (illustrative provincial majorities).
Southeast Asia
- Coming
Dutch East Indies · 1930
Peoples of the Dutch East Indies, 1930
Javanese, Sundanese, Malay, Madurese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Chinese and many others across residencies — the last colonial census before Indonesian independence.
Needs historic administrative GIS (uyezd / vilayet / kreis / district polygons) matched to period census tables. Borders from today’s maps would be misleading — we are waiting on open historic boundary files (e.g. Heidelberg 1897 / Ristat), which are behind archive download walls from this build environment.
- Javanese
- Sundanese
- Malay
- Madurese
- Minangkabau
- Balinese
- Chinese
- Other
Looking for today’s fertility by province? See regional maps.
What this page measures
- Historic layers use period administrative units (uyezds, kreise, crownlands) that do not match today’s borders. Interactive polygons ship as each boundary file is matched to the census tables.
Definitions for every indicator are listed in the glossary, and collection methods in the methodology.
Sources & citation
birthrate.io, "Historic empire maps". https://www.birthrate.io/maps/historic (accessed 27 September 2026).
Please cite the original statistical agency for the underlying figures. Charts and tables on this page may be reused with attribution.