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	-
Qing Empire^[2]	210,715,000	30.9%
Mughal Empire^[3]	158,400,000	23.2%
Holy Roman Empire^[4]^[5] show subdivisions Bohemian Crown - 3,242,000^[6] Spanish Netherlands - 2,000,000+ Archduchy of Austria - 2,500,000^[7] Saxony - 2,000,000 Savoyard state - 1,396,000 Electorate of Bavaria - 1,000,000 Margraviate of Brandenburg - ~1,000,000^[8] Grand Duchy of Tuscany - ~1,000,000 Duchy of Milan - ? Duchy of Württemberg - 340,000^[9] 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^[10] Saxe-Lauenburg - ? Münster - ? Magdeburg - ? Hamburg - 70,000 Hesse-Homburg - ? Lübeck - ? Schleswig - ? Holstein - ? Bishopric of Lübeck - ? Principality of Ansbach - ?	27,400,000	4.0%
Tokugawa shogunate^[11]^[12]	27,000,000	4.0%
Ottoman Empire^[13]^[14] show subdivisions Anatolia - 8,400,000 Ottoman Egypt - 5,400,000 show vassal states Principality of Wallachia - 600,000^[15] Principality of Moldavia - 480,000^[15] Crimean Khanate - ?	24,779,000	3.6%
Spanish Empire^[2]^[16]^[13]^[14] show subdivisions Kingdom of Spain - 7,400,000 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%
French Empire^[14]	21,471,000	3.1%
Tsardom of Russia^[13]	13,616,000	2.0%
Joseon^[14]	12,200,000	1.8%
Habsburg Monarchy^[17]^[13] show subdivisions Kingdom of Hungary - 4,000,000 Kingdom of Bohemia - 3,242,000 Archduchy of Austria - 2,500,000^[18] Principality of Transylvania - 800,000 Kingdom of Croatia - 647,000 Duchy of Carinthia - 248,000^[19] Kingdom of Slavonia - ?	9,989,000	1.5%
British Empire^[20]^[21] show subdivisions Kingdom of England - 5,108,500 Kingdom of Ireland^[22] - 2,060,051 Kingdom of Scotland - 1,200,000 Wales - 366,500 British America^[23] - 250,888show 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^[24] - 145,300show constituents Barbados - 65,500 Colony of Jamaica - 49,300 Leeward Islands - 30,500	9,131,239	1.3%
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth^[25]	9,000,000	1.3%
Đại Việt^[26]	8,000,000	1.2%
Safavid Iran^[14]	4,640,000	0.7%
Morocco^[13]	4,000,000	0.5%
Nepal^[13]	3,064,000	0.4%
Swedish Empire^[17] show subdivisions Kingdom of Sweden - 1,485,000 Finland- 500,000 Estonia- 160,000 Bremen-Verden - ? Karelia - ? Ingria - ? Livonia - ? Riga - ? Western Pomerania - ?	2,700,000	0.4%
Ayutthaya Kingdom^[13]	2,500,000	0.4%
Portuguese Empire^[17] show subdivisions Portugal - 2,000,000 Colonial Brazil - 300,000 State of Maranhão - ? Portuguese North Africa - ?^[a] Portuguese Africa - ?^[b] Portuguese India - ? Portuguese Macau - ? Portuguese Timor - ? Colonia del Sacramento - ?	2,300,000	0.3%
Republic of Venice	2,000,000	0.3%
Dutch Republic^[17] show subdivisions Dutch Republic - 1,794,000 Dutch East India Company- ? Dutch West India Company- ?	1,794,000	0.3%
Cambodia^[13]	1,650,000	0.2%
Brandenburg-Prussia^[27] show subdivisions Duchy of Prussia - ? Margraviate of Brandenburg- ?	2,000,000	0.2%
Savoyard state^[28] show subdivisions Piedmont- 950,000 Savoy - 300,000 Aosta - 70,000 Nice- 60,000 Oneglia - 16,000	1,396,000	0.2%
Denmark–Norway^[17] show subdivisions Denmark - 745,000 Norway- 540,000 Iceland- 50,400 Greenland - 5,000	1,300,400	0.2%
Swiss Confederacy^[14]	1,260,000	0.2%
Grand Duchy of Tuscany^[2]	~1,000,000	0.1%
Kingdom of Kongo^[29]	500,000	0.07%
Lan Xang^[13]	371,000	0.05%
Ryukyu Kingdom^[30]	141,187	0.02%
Hospitaller Malta	50,000	0.01%

Notes[]

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

References[]

^ "The World at Six Billion". UN Population Division. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016., Table 2
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Population Statistics: Historical Demography". Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
^ Böröcz, József (10 September 2009). The European Union and Global Social Change. ISBN 9781135255800. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Avakov, p. 18.
^ 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.
^ Wilson, Peter H. War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677-1793. 1995. Page 43.
^ 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)
^ Avakov, p. 18.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN 9781628941012. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Maddison. "Growth of World Population GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820" (PDF). Retrieved 29 September 2017.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Murgescu, Bogdan (14 June 2016). Romania si Europa. Polirom. pp. 75–76. ISBN 9789734620418.
^ "A History of Spain and Portugal". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "European Population History". Retrieved 30 June 2016.
^ And related territories roughly covering the modern borders of Austria. Avakov, p. 18.
^ Roughly the modern borders of Slovenia. Avakov, p. 20.
^ Mitchison, A History of Scotland, pp. 291–2 and 301-2.
^ MArshall, John (1838). "Statistics of the British Empire".
^ Grada, C. O. "The Population of Ireland: 1700-1900, A Survey".
^ "ESTIMATED POPULATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES: 1610 TO 1780".
^ "Population of the English West Indies, 1655-1755" (PDF).
^ 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
^ Li 1998, p. 160-171.
^ Dwyer, p. 52.
^ Geoffrey Symcox. "Victor Amadaeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730." Page 245.
^ Thornton, John (1977). "Demography and History in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1550–1750". The Journal of African History 18 (4): 526.
^ (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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[27] El Jadida, Portuguese Cape Verde

[28] São Tomé Island, Príncipe, Annobón Province, Bioko, Portuguese Mozambique, Portuguese Angola, Cacheu, Ziguinchor, Ouidah, Bissau

[1] "The World at Six Billion". UN Population Division. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016., Table 2

[Population_Statistics:_Historical_Demography-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Population Statistics: Historical Demography". Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2016.

[3] Böröcz, József (10 September 2009). The European Union and Global Social Change. ISBN 9781135255800. Retrieved 26 June 2017.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[6] Avakov, p. 18.

[7] And related territories roughly covering the modern borders of Austria. Avakov, p. 18.

[8] 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.

[9] Wilson, Peter H. War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677-1793. 1995. Page 43.

[10] Peter Wilson. "German Armies: War and German Society, 1648-1806." 2002. Page 21. Combined population of Luneberg and Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.

[11] 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)

[12] Avakov, p. 18.

[Two_Thousand_Years_of_Economic_Statistics,_Volume_1-13] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN 9781628941012. Retrieved 6 May 2016.

[Growth_of_World_Population-14] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Maddison. "Growth of World Population GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820" (PDF). Retrieved 29 September 2017.

[Murgescu2016-15] Jump up to: ^a ^b Murgescu, Bogdan (14 June 2016). Romania si Europa. Polirom. pp. 75–76. ISBN 9789734620418.

[16] "A History of Spain and Portugal". Retrieved 29 June 2016.

[European_Population_History-17] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "European Population History". Retrieved 30 June 2016.

[18] And related territories roughly covering the modern borders of Austria. Avakov, p. 18.

[19] Roughly the modern borders of Slovenia. Avakov, p. 20.

[20] Mitchison, A History of Scotland, pp. 291–2 and 301-2.

[21] MArshall, John (1838). "Statistics of the British Empire".

[22] Grada, C. O. "The Population of Ireland: 1700-1900, A Survey".

[23] "ESTIMATED POPULATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES: 1610 TO 1780".

[24] "Population of the English West Indies, 1655-1755" (PDF).

[Pogonowski-25] 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

[FOOTNOTELi1998160-171-26] Li 1998, p. 160-171.

[29] Dwyer, p. 52.

[30] Geoffrey Symcox. "Victor Amadaeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730." Page 245.

[31] Thornton, John (1977). "Demography and History in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1550–1750". The Journal of African History 18 (4): 526.

[Ryukyu-32] (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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