List of countries by population in 1907

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This is a list of countries by population in 1907. Due to the existence of many colonial empires in 1907, dependent territories are counted under the overall empire's total and not independently if they are under de facto control.

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List

Rank	Country /Territory	Population 1907 estimate	Percentage of World Population
—	World	1,750,000,000	—
1	Qing Dynasty [1] constituents   Qing China – 415,964,000   Tibet – 3,300,000	419,264,000	24.0%
2	British Empire [1] constituents   India – 289,606,000   United Kingdom – 39,700,000   British Africa – 38,107,000 constituents Northern Nigeria – 9,500,000 Egypt – 10,900,000 [2] Southern Nigeria – 7,500,000 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan – 4,800,000   Gold Coast – 2,800,000 Cape Colony – 2,500,000   Uganda – 1,800,000   Kenya – 1,700,000 Transvaal Colony – 1,400,000 Colony of Natal – 1,200,000 Sierra Leone (including protectorate) – 1,000,000 Nyasaland – 850,000   Northern Rhodesia – 770,000   Southern Rhodesia – 734,000 Orange River Colony – 400,000 Basutoland – 383,000 Mauritius – 375,000 Zanzibar (UK and Oman) – 250,000 British Somaliland – 300,000 Gambia – 165,000 Swaziland – 90,000 Bechuanaland – 90,000   Canada – 5,500,000   Ireland – 4,390,000   Australia – 4,520,000 constituents   Australia – 4,120,000 Territory of Papua (UK, de facto Australia) – 400,000   British Ceylon – 3,700,000 British West Indies – 1,668,500 subdivisions   Jamaica – 820,000 Trinidad and Tobago – 320,000   Barbados – 182,000 Bahamas – 55,000 Saint Lucia – 50,0000 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – 49,000   British Honduras – 45,000 Saint Kitts (with Nevis) – 45,000 Antigua (with Barbuda and Redonda) – 35,000 Dominica – 32,000 Bermuda – 20,000   Turks and Caicos Islands – 5,500 British Virgin Islands – 5,000   Cayman Islands – 5,000   New Zealand – 967,000   Federated Malay States – 900,000   Straits Settlements – 550,000   Raj of Sarawak – 500,000   Hong Kong – 325,000   North Borneo – 300,000   British Guiana – 300,000   Newfoundland – 230,000 Cyprus – 240,000   Malta – 195,000 British Solomon Islands – 135,000   Fiji – 125,000 Bahrain (UK) – 70,000 Grenada – 70,000 Trucial Oman – 70,000   Isle of Man – 57,000 Maldives – 56,000   Jersey – 54,000 New Hebrides (Anglo-French condominium) – 50,000 Aden Protectorate – 45,000   Guernsey – 42,000 Kuwait – 40,000 Gilbert and Ellice Islands – 30,000 Gibraltar – 29,000 Brunei – 22,000 Seychelles – 22,000   Tonga – 21,000 Witu – 15,000 Montserrat – 12,000 Qatar – 11,000 Cook Islands – 6,000 Anguilla – 4,500   Saint Helena – 4,500   Niue – 4,000 Ellice Islands – 2,400   Falkland Islands – 2,300 Christmas Island – 900 Cocos Islands – 650 Tokelau Islands – 500 Pitcairn Islands – 170 Ascension Island – c. 100–200 Tristan da Cunha – 95 Phoenix Islands – 60	402,260,775	23.0%
3	Russian Empire constituents Russia proper – 151,010,000 Congress Poland – 17,138,700 Russian Turkestan – 5,000,000 – 10,000,000 (Disputed) Grand Duchy of Finland – 2,431,000 Bukhara – 1,250,000 Khiva – 400,000	182,229,700	10.8%
4	United States [1] constituents   United States – 87,008,000 Philippines – 7,844,000 Puerto Rico – 1,100,000   Hawaii – 154,000 Guam – 12,000 American Samoa – 6,000	96,124,000	5.5%
5	French Empire [1] constituents France – 39,270,000   French Indochina – 17,250,000 constituents Annam – 6,000,000 Tongking – 6,000,000 Cochin-China – 3,200,000   Cambodia – 1,500,000 Laos – 550,000   French West Africa – 11,635,000 constituents French Sudan – 2,800,000 Upper Volta – 2,375,000 French Guinea – 1,600,000 Niger – 1,570,000 Senegal – 1,230,000 Ivory Coast – 950,000 Dahomey – 570,000 Mauretania – 540,000   French North Africa – 5,890,000 constituents Algeria – 4,000,000 Tunis – 1,890,000   Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies – 2,996,700 constituents Madagascar – 2,706,700 Réunion – 178,000 Comoros – 112,000   French Equatorial Africa – 1,960,000 constituents Chad – 810,000 Oubangui-Chari – 630,000 Middle Congo (also called French Congo) – 280,000 Gabon – 240,000   French West Indies – 375,000 constituents Guadeloupe – 190,000 Martinique – 185,000 French India – 280,000 Kwang-Chou-Wan – 185,000 New Caledonia – 54,000 French Somaliland – 50,000 New Hebrides (Anglo-French condominium) – 50,000 French Polynesia – 30,000 French Guiana – 24,000 Wallis and Futuna – 6,000 Saint Pierre and Miquelon – 5,000	80,060,700	4.6%
6	German Empire constituents Germany – 67,000,000 Cameroon – 3,500,000 German East Africa – 3,500,000 Ruanda-Urundi – 2,700,000 Togoland – 920,000 German South-West Africa – 210,000 German New Guinea – 188,000 Kiaochow – 60,000 German Solomon Islands – 50,000 German Samoa – 37,000 Caroline Islands – 36,000 Micronesia – 15,000 Marshall Islands – 15,000 Palau – 4,000 Neutral Moresnet – 3,000 Mariana Islands – 2,500 Nauru – 1,500	78,239,000	4.5%
7	Dutch Empire constituents   Netherlands – 5,616,000   Dutch East Indies – 45,500,000 Surinam – 86,000 Netherlands Antilles – 44,000	51,246,000	2.9%
8	Austria-Hungary constituents Bohemia – 12,825,000 Croatia-Slavonia – 2,201,000 Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1,200,000	50,000,000	2.9%
9	Japanese Empire constituents   Japan – 42,000,000 Formosa – 3,500,000	45,500,000	2.6%
10	Italian Empire constituents   Italy – 34,640,700 Italian Somaliland – 400,000 Eritrea – 220,000	35,260,700	2.0%
11	Ottoman Empire [3] constituents   Ottoman Empire – 20,832,000 Tripoli – 1,000,000   Cretan State – 310,000	22,142,000	1.2%
12	Spanish Empire constituents Spain – 20,750,000 Canary Islands – 360,000 Spanish Guinea (or Río Muni) – 150,000 Rio de Oro – 40,000 Fernando Po – 25,000 Spanish Morocco (mainly Ceuta and Melilla) – 22,000 Elobey, Annobón and Corisco – 3,000	21,350,000	1.2%
13	Brazil	20,750,000	1.2%
14	Korean Empire	17,100,000	1.0%
15	Belgian Empire [4] constituents   Belgium – 6,136,000   Congo Free State – 9,130,000 Neutral Moresnet – 3,000	15,269,000	0.9%
16	Abyssinia [5]	14,000,000	0.8%
17	Portuguese Empire constituents Portugal – 5,730,000 [6] Portuguese East Africa – 2,600,000 Portuguese West Africa – 2,400,000 Portuguese India – 475,000 Portuguese Timor – 300,000 Azores – 260,000 Portuguese Guinea – 200,000 Madeira – 160,000 Cape Verde – 140,000 Macau – 80,000 São Tomé and Príncipe – 61,000	12,434,000	0.7%
18	Mexico [7]	12,050,000	0.7%
19	Morocco [8] [9]	9,000,000	0.5%
20	Siam	7,200,000	0.4%
21	Persia	7,000,000	0.4%
22	Romania	6,630,000
23	Argentina	5,800,000
24	Sweden	5,377,713
25	Afghanistan	5,000,000
26	Nepal	4,789,000
27	Colombia	4,604,000
28	Arabia [lower-alpha 1]	4,218,000
29	Peru	3,700,000
30	Switzerland	3,525,300
31	Bulgaria	3,154,000
32	Chile	2,857,000
33	Greece	2,800,000
34	Venezuela	2,741,000
35	Serbia	2,650,000
36	Norway	2,324,800
37	Denmark constituents   Denmark – 2,182,000   Iceland – 82,000 Danish Virgin Islands – 28,000 Faroe Islands – 17,000 Greenland – 13,000	2,322,000
38	Cuba	1,500,000
39	Bolivia	1,500,000
40	Ecuador	1,271,000
41	El Salvador	1,116,300
42	Guatemala	1,046,000
43	Uruguay	1,026,000
44	Paraguay	715,000
45	Liberia	664,000
46	Dominican Republic	610,000
47	Nicaragua	515,000
48	Honduras	505,000
49	Muscat and Oman	500,000
50	Costa Rica	341,600
51	Montenegro	320,000
52	Panama	318,000
53	Bhutan	280,000
54	Luxembourg	252,000
55	Sikkim	60,000
56	Monaco	19,000
57	San Marino	11,000
58	Liechtenstein	10,000
59	Andorra	6,000

Notes

1. "Population Statistics: Historical Demography". Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
2. "Population of Egypt from 1800 until 2020". Statista. August 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
3. "Turkey"  . The Nuttall Encyclopædia . 1907.
4. "Statista - The Statistics Portal". Statista. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
5. "ETHIOPIA: population growth of the whole country". www.populstat.info.
6. "Population of Portugal from 1768 to 2020". Statista. June 2019. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
7. "Mexico"  . The Nuttall Encyclopædia . 1907.
8. "Dun's Review". R.G. Dun & Company. 22 July 2018 – via Google Books.
9. Bacon, Leonard; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Storrs, Richard Salter; Beecher, Henry Ward; Leavitt, Joshua; Tilton, Theodore; Bowen, Henry Chandler; Ward, William Hayes; Holt, Hamilton; Franklin, Fabian; Fuller, Harold de Wolf; Herter, Christian Archibald (22 July 2018). "The Independent". S. W. Benecdict – via Google Books.

1. Mainly includes Hejaz, Nejd, Hadramaut and Yemen

References

• Wood, James, ed. (1907), The Nuttall Encyclopædia  , London and New York: Frederick Warne .—Originally this article incorporated statistics from the Nuttall Encyclopedia published in 1907. The list includes the populations of all countries, states and territories listed in the Encyclopedia with an estimated population. The populations listed here, rounded to the nearest 1,000, represent the best estimate of population by the editors of the Nuttall Encyclopedia.

The other main sources are:

• "Population statistics: historical demography", Population statistics, 31 October 2006, archived from the original on 23 February 2015, retrieved 19 August 2018
• Table of contents. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica  – via Wikisource.Page has search box.
• "(GES,P) Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas mit Jahrbuch 1905, herausgegeben auf Veranlassung der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft. Berlin 1905 – Verteilung des Kolonialbesitzes der europäischen Staaten", Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien im Internet e.V. (ZUM.de) (in German), retrieved 19 August 2018