Manchukuo

Population

In 1908 the number of residents was 15,834,000, which rose to 30,000,000 in 1931 and 43,000,000 for the Manchukuo state. The population balance remained 123 men to 100 women and the total number in 1941 was 50,000,000.

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In early 1934 the total population of Manchukuo was estimated as 30,880,000, with 6.1 persons the average family, and 122 men for each 100 women. These numbers included 30,190,000 Chinese, 590,760 Japanese, and 98,431 other nationalities (Russians, Mongols,etc). The Chinese numbers included 680,000 Koreans. Around 80% of the population was rural. Other statistics indicate that in Manchukuo the population rose by 18,000,000.

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From Japanese sources come these numbers: in 1940 the total population in Manchukuo of Heilungjiang, Jehol, Kirin, Liaoning (Fengtieng) and Hsingan provinces at 43,233,954; or an Interior Ministery figure of 31,008,600. Another figure of the period evaluated the total population as 36,933,000 residents.

Related Topics:
Heilungjiang - Jehol - Kirin - Liaoning - Fengtieng - Hsingan

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In their colonization efforts, the Japanese intended to ask Nazi Germany for the Jews it obviously did not want, in a kind of forced Zionism (compare with the Siberian Jewish Autonomous Oblast).

Related Topics:
Nazi Germany - Jew - Zionism - Jewish Autonomous Oblast

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However the German government preferred the Final Solution and only a few Jews made it to Manchukuo.

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• Yingkow (119,000 or 180,871 in 1940)
• Mukden (339,000 or 1,135,801 in 1940)
• Hsinking or Changchung (126,000 or 544,202 in 1940)
• Harbin (405,000 or 661,948 in 1940)
• Dairen (400,000 or 555,562 in 1939)
• Antung (92,000 or 315,242 in 1940)
• Kirin (119,000 or 173,624 in 1940)
• Tsitsihar (75,000 in 1940)