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.
↑ 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. Note that these statistics are for countries within 2011 borders, and so Germany's figure lacks the population of large areas that are now part of Poland but were then part of the Empire, such as Silesia and most of Pomerania. This figure also discounts areas that are now part of France, bar Savoy and Nice (370,000 inhabitants, see Savoyard state), such as Alsace-Lorraine. As a result, by Avakov's figures, the listed low end of 27.8 million is an underestimate of the Empire's actual population.
↑ 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 Slovenia, Belgium, Luxembourg, and areas that are now part of France. By Avakov's figures these excluded territories add up to well over 7 million inhabitants. It is additionally not clear how "Germany" is defined.
1 2 Avakov, p. 18. 3,242,000 on the area of modern Czechia, so excluding Silesia (which comprised about a third of the polity's area).
1 2 And related territories roughly covering the modern borders of Austria. Avakov, p. 18.
↑ Dwyer, Philip G. The Rise of Prussia 1700–1830. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014. Page 52. The population of all of the King in Prussia's domains is given as 1.5 million in 1713, and the bulk of these lived within the Empire, rather than in the smaller and more barren holding in Ducal Prussia.
↑ Peter Wilson. "German Armies: War and German Society, 1648–1806." 2002. Page 21. Combined population of Luneberg and Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.
↑ Jean-Noël Biraben, "The History of the Human Population From the First Beginnings to the Present" in "Demography: Analysis and Synthesis: A Treatise in Population" (Eds: Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, Guillaume J. Wunsch) Vol 3, Chapter 66, pp 5–18, Academic Press, San Diego. (2005)
↑ "It is suggested that the actual population of the Ahom territories up to the Manas ranged from two to three millions over one-and-a-half century ending 1750." Guha, Medieval Northeast India:Polity, Society and Economy, 1200-1750 A.D. pp.26–30.
↑ Cornell, James (1978). Lost Lands and Forgotten People. Sterling Publishing Company. p.24. ISBN978-0-8069-3926-1. Zimbabwe continued to grow, reaching the height of its power in 1700, under the rule of the Rozwi people. When the first Europeans arrived on the African coast, they heard tales of a great stone city, the capital of a vast empire. The tales were true, for the Rozwi controlled 240,000 square miles [...] More than one million Africans lived under Rozwi rule.
↑ (a) Yoshio Oguchi, "Demographics of Satsuma Domian", Reimeikan Chōsa Kenkyū Hōkoku (no. 11), pp. 87–134 (1998). (b) Yoshio Oguchi, "Demographics of Satsuma Domian and early modern Ryūkyū", Reimeikan Chōsa Kenkyū Hōkoku (no. 13), pp. 1–42 (2000) (all in Japanese).
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