List of countries by population in 1700

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This is a list of countries by population in 1700. Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in the 1700s. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1, pages 18 to 20, which cover population figures from the year 1700 divided into modern borders. Avakov, in turn, cites a variety of sources, mostly Angus Maddison.

Country/Territory Population
estimate
c. 1700		 Percentage of
World
Population
  World[1] 682,000,000 –
Mughal Empire[2]
Subdivisions
 158,400,000 23%
Qing Empire[3][4]
Subdivisions
 100,000,000–150,000,000 22%
Ottoman Empire[6][7][8]
subdivisions
vassal states
 27,519,000 4.0%
Holy Roman Empire[10][11]
subdivisions
 27,400,000 4.0%
Tokugawa Japan[17][12] 27,000,000 4.0%
Spain and possessions[18][19][6][7]
subdivisions
 24,530,000 3.6%
France[7] 21,471,000 3.1%
Tsardom of Russia[6] 13,616,000 2.0%
Joseon[7] 13,500,000 2.0%
Safavid Iran[20] 10,000,000 1.5%
Habsburg monarchy[21][6]
subdivisions
 9,989,000 1.5%
England, Scotland, and possessions[23][24]
subdivisions
 9,131,239 1.3%
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[28] 9,000,000 1.3%
Lê dynasty (Đại Việt)[29] 8,000,000 1.2%
Morocco and possessions[6]
subdivisions
 4,000,000 0.5%
 Portuguese Empire[21][30]
subdivisions
 3,800,000+ 0.6%+
          Nepal[6] 3,064,000 0.4%
          Ahom kingdom 2,000,000-3,000,000[31] 0.3%-0.4%
Sweden[21]
subdivisions
 2,700,000 0.4%
Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam)[6] 2,500,000 0.4%
Ethiopian Empire 2,338,000[6] 0.3%
Brandenburg-Prussia[32]
subdivisions
 2,000,000 0.2%
Dutch Republic[21]
subdivisions
 1,794,000 0.3%
Cambodia[6] 1,650,000 0.2%
Savoyard state[33]
subdivisions
 1,396,000 0.2%
Denmark–Norway[21]
subdivisions
 1,300,400 0.2%
Swiss Confederacy[7] 1,260,000 0.2%
          Rozvi Empire 1,000,000+[34] 0.1%
          Dzungaria[35] 1,000,000 0.1%
Grand Duchy of Tuscany[18] ~1,000,000 0.1%
Kingdom of Kongo[36] 790,000 0.12%
          Lan Xang[6] 371,000 0.05%
Ryukyu Kingdom[37] 141,187 0.02%
Hospitaller Malta[citation needed] 50,000 0.01%
          Rapa Nui (Easter Island)[38] 3,000-4,000 0.0004%-0.001%

See also

Notes

  1. ^ El Jadida, Portuguese Cape Verde
  2. ^ São Tomé Island, Príncipe, Annobón Province, Bioko, Portuguese Angola, Cacheu, Ziguinchor, Ouidah, Bissau

References

  1. ^ "The World at Six Billion". UN Population Division. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016., Table 2
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  3. ^ Rowe, William T. (2009). China's Last Empire: The Great Qing. p. 91.
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  5. ^ Avakov 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN 9781628941012. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e Maddison (27 July 2016). "Growth of World Population GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820" (PDF). Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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  10. ^ The combined population of Germany (15m), Austria (2.5m), Czechia (3.242m), Belgium (2m), Slovenia (0.248m), and a third of Italy (4.4m), Avakov, p. 18-20.
  11. ^ J.P. Sommerville. "The Holy Roman Empire in the Seventeenth Century". Retrieved 21 May 2017.. Archived here. The figure of 20 million is given for "Germany, Austria, and Bohemia", a definition of the Empire that specifically excludes the Empire's Italian territories such as the Savoyard state, Milan, and Tuscany, as well as its territories in the Low Countries.
  12. ^ a b Avakov, p. 18.
  13. ^ a b And related territories roughly covering the modern borders of Austria. Avakov, p. 18.
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  22. ^ Roughly the modern borders of Slovenia. Avakov, p. 20.
  23. ^ Mitchison, A History of Scotland, pp. 291–2 and 301-2.
  24. ^ MArshall, John (1838). "Statistics of the British Empire".
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  26. ^ "ESTIMATED POPULATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES: 1610 TO 1780".
  27. ^ "Population of the English West Indies, 1655–1755" (PDF).
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  32. ^ Dwyer, p. 52.
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