List of countries by population in 1700

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This is a list of countries by population in 1700. Estimated 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, primarily Angus Maddison.

Country/Territory	Population estimate c. 1700	Percentage of World Population
World [1]	682,300,000	–
Mughal Empire [2] Subdivisions Bengal Subah Jaisalmer – ? Bikaner – ? Marwar – ? Mewar – ? Amber – ? Dungarpur – ? Kotah – ? Gondi states – ?	158,400,000	23%
Qing Empire [3] [4] Subdivisions Outer Mongolia Governorate – 619,000 [5] Kumul Khanate – ? Sichuan Province Tusi – ? Guizhou Province Tusi – ? Guangxi Province Tusi – ? Yunnan Province Tusi – ? Taiwan – ?	100,000,000–150,000,000	22%
Ottoman Empire [6] [7] [8] subdivisions Anatolia – 8,400,000 Ottoman Egypt – 5,400,000 vassal states Crimean Khanate - 2,740,000 Principality of Wallachia – 600,000 [9] Principality of Moldavia - 480,000 [9]	27,519,000	4.0%
Holy Roman Empire [10] [11] subdivisions Bohemian Crown – 3,242,000 [12] Spanish Netherlands – 2,000,000+ Archduchy of Austria – 2,500,000 [13] Saxony – 2,000,000 Savoyard state – 1,396,000 [14] Electorate of Bavaria – 1,000,000 Margraviate of Brandenburg – ~1,000,000 [15] Grand Duchy of Tuscany – ~1,000,000 Duchy of Milan – ? Duchy of Württemberg – 340,000 [16] Margraviate of Baden – ? Thuringian states – ? Hesse-Darmstadt – ? Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – ? Nassau – ? Bishopric of Würzburg – ? County of Oldenburg – ? Luxembourg – ? Reuss Elder Line – ? Principality of Lippe – ? Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – ? Anhalt-Dessau – ? Arenberg – ? Anhalt-Bernburg – ? Anhalt-Köthen – ? Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe – ? Liechtenstein – ? Archbishopric of Salzburg- ? Electorate of Hanover – ? Mainz – ? Trier – ? Cologne – 39,000 Electoral Palatinate – ? Brunswick-Luneburg – 350,000 [17] Saxe-Lauenburg – ? Münster – ? Magdeburg – ? Hamburg – 70,000 Hesse-Homburg – ? Lübeck – ? Schleswig – ? Holstein – ? Bishopric of Lübeck – ? Principality of Ansbach – ?	27,400,000	4.1%
Tokugawa Japan [18] [12]	27,000,000	4.0%
Spain and possessions [19] [20] [6] [7] subdivisions Kingdom of Spain – 8,770,000 New Spain – 4,500,000 Spanish Netherlands – 2,000,000+ Kingdom of Naples – 3,300,000 New Granada – 1,500,000 Peru – 1,300,000 Chile – 800,000 Kingdom of Sicily – 700,000 Río de la Plata – 450,000 Philippines – 400,000 Provincias Internas – 300,000 Louisiana – 250,000 Cuba – 200,000 Guatemala – 150,000 Yucatán – 100,000 Puerto Rico – 80,000	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 [21]	10,000,000	1.5%
Habsburg monarchy [22] [6] subdivisions Kingdom of Hungary – 4,000,000 Kingdom of Bohemia – 3,242,000 Archduchy of Austria – 2,500,000 [13] Principality of Transylvania – 800,000 Kingdom of Croatia – 647,000 Duchy of Carinthia – 248,000 [23] Kingdom of Slavonia – ?	9,989,000	1.5%
England, Scotland, and possessions [24] [25] subdivisions Kingdom of England – 5,108,500 Kingdom of Ireland [26] – 2,060,051 Kingdom of Scotland – 1,200,000 Wales – 366,500 British America [27] – 250,888 constituents Colony of Virginia – 58,560 Province of Massachusetts Bay – 55,941 Province of Maryland – 29,604 Connecticut Colony – 25,970 Province of New York – 19,107 Province of Pennsylvania – 17,950 Province of Carolina – 16,424 East Jersey and West Jersey – 14,010 Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – 5,894 Province of New Hampshire – 4,958 Delaware Colony – 2,470 Bermuda – ? Newfoundland Colony – ? Rupert's Land – ? British West Indies [28] – 145,300 constituents Barbados – 65,500 Colony of Jamaica – 49,300 Leeward Islands – 30,500	9,131,239	1.3%
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth [29]	9,000,000	1.3%
Lê dynasty (Đại Việt) [30]	8,000,000	1.2%
Morocco and possessions [6] subdivisions Pashalik of Timbuktu – ?	4,000,000	0.5%
Portuguese Empire [22] [31] subdivisions Portugal – 2,000,000 Portuguese East Africa – 1,500,000 Colonial Brazil – 300,000 State of Maranhão – ? Portuguese North Africa – ? [a] Portuguese West Africa – ? [b] Portuguese India – ? Portuguese Macau – ? Portuguese Timor – ? Colonia del Sacramento – ?	3,800,000+	0.6%+
Nepal [6]	3,064,000	0.4%
Ahom kingdom	2,000,000-3,000,000 [32]	0.3%-0.4%
Sweden [22] subdivisions Kingdom of Sweden – 1,700,000 Finland- 600,000 Estonia- 160,000 Bremen-Verden – 50,000 Karelia – 100,000 Ingria – 30,000 Livonia – 200,000 Riga – 60,000 Western Pomerania – 100,000	3,000,000	0.4%
Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) [6]	2,500,000	0.4%
Ethiopian Empire	2,338,000 [6]	0.3%
Brandenburg-Prussia [33] subdivisions Duchy of Prussia – ? Margraviate of Brandenburg- ?	2,000,000	0.2%
Dutch Republic [22] subdivisions Dutch Republic – 1,794,000 Dutch East India Company- ? Dutch West India Company- ?	1,794,000	0.3%
Cambodia [6]	1,650,000	0.2%
Savoyard state [34] subdivisions Piedmont – 950,000 Savoy – 300,000 Aosta – 70,000 Nice – 60,000 Oneglia – 16,000	1,396,000	0.2%
Denmark–Norway [22] subdivisions Denmark – 745,000 Norway – 540,000 Iceland – 50,400 Danish India – 15,000 Greenland – 5,000	1,300,400	0.2%
Swiss Confederacy [7]	1,260,000	0.2%
Rozvi Empire	1,000,000+ [35]	0.1%
Dzungaria [36]	1,000,000	0.1%
Grand Duchy of Tuscany [19]	~1,000,000	0.1%
Kingdom of Kongo [37]	790,000	0.12%
Lan Xang [6]	371,000	0.05%
Ryukyu Kingdom [38]	141,187	0.02%
Hospitaller Malta [ citation needed ]	50,000	0.01%
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) [39]	3,000-4,000	0.0004%-0.001%

See also

• List of countries by population
• List of countries by population in 1300
• List of countries by population in 1400
• List of countries by population in 1500
• List of countries by population in 1600
• List of countries by population in 1700
• List of countries by population in 1800
• List of countries by population in 1900

Notes

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

References

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5. Avakov 2015.
6. Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN   9781628941012 . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
7. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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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)
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23. Roughly the modern borders of Slovenia. Avakov, p. 20.
24. Mitchison, A History of Scotland, pp. 291–2 and 301-2.
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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.
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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).
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