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.

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Country/TerritoryPopulation
estimate
c.1700
Percentage of
World
Population
  World [1] 682,300,000
Alam of the Mughal Empire.svg Mughal Empire [2]
Subdivisions
158,400,000
Plain Yellow Banner.svg Qing Empire [3] [4] 100,000,000–150,000,000
Fictitious Ottoman flag 2.svg Ottoman Empire [6] [7] [8]
subdivisions
vassal states
27,519,000
Holy Roman Empire [10] [11] 27,800,000
Flag of the Tokugawa Shogunate.svg Tokugawa Japan [18] [12] 27,000,000
Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg Spain and possessions [19] [20] [6] [7]
subdivisions
24,530,000
Royal Standard of the King of France.svg France [7] 21,471,000
Flag of Oryol (variant).svg Tsardom of Russia [6] 13,616,000
Flag of the King of Joseon (fringeless).svg Joseon [7] 13,500,000
Safavid Flag.svg Safavid Iran [21] 10,000,0001.5%
Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Habsburg monarchy [22] [6]
subdivisions
9,989,000
Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg England, Scotland, and possessions [24] [25]
subdivisions
9,131,239
Polish Royal Banner of The House of Wettin.svg Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth [29] 9,000,000
Lê dynasty (Đại Việt) [30] 8,000,000
Flag of Morocco 1666 1915.svg Morocco and possessions [6]
subdivisions
4,000,0000.5%
Flag of Portugal (1578).svg Portuguese Empire [22] [31] 3,800,000+
           Nepal [6] 3,064,000
Ahom insignia plain.svg Ahom kingdom 2,000,000-3,000,000 [32]
Naval Ensign of Sweden.svg Sweden [22]
subdivisions
3,000,000
Flag of Thailand (Ayutthaya period).svg Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) [6] 2,500,000
Ethiopian Pennants.svg Ethiopian Empire 2,338,000 [6]
Wappen Mark Brandenburg.png POL Prusy ksiazece COA.svg Brandenburg-Prussia [33] 2,000,000
Statenvlag.svg Dutch Republic [22] 1,794,000
Flag of Cambodia (pre-1863).svg Cambodia [6] 1,650,000
Savoie flag.svg Savoyard state [34]
subdivisions
1,396,000
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark–Norway [22]
subdivisions
1,300,400
Early Swiss cross.svg Swiss Confederacy [7] 1,260,000
           Rozvi Empire 1,000,000+ [35]
           Dzungaria [36] 1,000,0000.1%
Flag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1562-1737) - type 2.svg Grand Duchy of Tuscany [19] ~1,000,000
Flag of the Kingdom of Kongo according to Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo.svg Kingdom of Kongo [37] 790,000
           Lan Xang [6] 371,000
Flag of Ryukyu.svg Ryukyu Kingdom [38] 141,187
Flag of the Order of St. John (various).svg Hospitaller Malta [ citation needed ]50,000
           Rapa Nui (Easter Island) [39] 3,000-4,000

See also

Notes

References

  1. "The World at Six Billion". UN Population Division. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016., Table 2
  2. Böröcz, József (10 September 2009). The European Union and Global Social Change. ISBN   9781135255800 . Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  3. Rowe, William T. (2009). China's Last Empire: The Great Qing. p. 91.
  4. Jiang, Tao (2011). A Brief History of Population in China. Social Science Academic Press.
  5. Avakov 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN   9781628941012 . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Maddison (27 July 2016). "Growth of World Population GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820" (PDF). Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  8. "religiya-karaimov" (PDF).
  9. 1 2 Murgescu, Bogdan (14 June 2016). Romania si Europa. Polirom. pp. 75–76. ISBN   9789734620418.
  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. 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.
  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 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.
  12. 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).
  13. 1 2 And related territories roughly covering the modern borders of Austria. Avakov, p. 18.
  14. Geoffrey Symcox. "Victor Amadaeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730." Archived November 6, 2023, at the Wayback Machine Page 245. Breakdown is: Piedmont 950,000, Savoy 300,000, Nice 70,000, Aosta 60,000, Oneglia 16,000.
  15. 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.
  16. Wilson, Peter H. War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793. 1995. Page 43.
  17. Peter Wilson. "German Armies: War and German Society, 1648–1806." 2002. Page 21. Combined population of Luneberg and Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.
  18. 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)
  19. 1 2 "Population Statistics: Historical Demography". Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  20. "A History of Spain and Portugal" . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  21. Blake, Stephen P., ed. (2013), "Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman Empires" , Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 21–47, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139343305.004, ISBN   978-1-107-03023-7 , retrieved 2021-11-10
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 "European Population History" . Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  23. Roughly the modern borders of Slovenia. Avakov, p. 20.
  24. Mitchison, A History of Scotland, pp. 291–2 and 301-2.
  25. MArshall, John (1838). "Statistics of the British Empire".
  26. Grada, C. O. (1979). "The Population of Ireland: 1700–1900, A Survey". Annales de Démographie Historique. 1979: 281–299. doi:10.3406/adh.1979.1425.
  27. "ESTIMATED POPULATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES: 1610 TO 1780".
  28. "Population of the English West Indies, 1655–1755" (PDF).
  29. Based on 1618 population map Archived 2013-02-17 at the Wayback Machine (p.115), 1618 languages map (p.119), 1657–1667 losses map (p.128) and 1717 map Archived 2013-02-17 at the Wayback Machine (p.141) from Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, Poland a Historical Atlas, Hippocrene Books, 1987, ISBN   0-88029-394-2
  30. Li 1998, p. 160-171.
  31. "Data on Angola | Reconstructing Global Inequality". clio-infra.eu. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  32. "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.
  33. Dwyer, p. 52.
  34. Geoffrey Symcox. "Victor Amadaeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675–1730." Page 245.
  35. Cornell, James (1978). Lost Lands and Forgotten People. Sterling Publishing Company. p. 24. ISBN   978-0-8069-3926-1. 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.
  36. Clarke, Michael Edmund (2008-04-10). "In the Eye of Power: China and Xinjiang from the Qing Conquest to the "New Great Game" for Central Asia, 1759 – 2004" (PDF). p. 37. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  37. Thornton, John K. (July 2021). "Revising the Population History of the Kingdom of Kongo" . The Journal of African History. 62 (2): 201–212. doi:10.1017/S0021853721000451. ISSN   0021-8537. S2CID   237296222.
  38. (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).
  39. Fischer, Steven Roger (2005). Island at the End of the World. London: Reaktion Books Ltd. pp.  14, 38. ISBN   978-1861892829.