List of countries by population in 1907

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This is a list of countries by population in 1907. It is not a complete list: some^[which?] non-independent countries and overseas territories are not included.

Rank	Country /Territory	Population 1907 estimate	Percentage of World Population
—	World	1,750,000,000	—
1	Qing China[1] constituents  Qing China – 415,964,000  Tibet – 3,300,000	419,264,000	24.0%
2	British Empire[1] constituents  British Raj – 289,606,000  United Kingdom – 39,700,000   British Africa – 33,409,000 constituents Northern Nigeria – 9,500,000  Egypt – 9,000,000 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 Sierra Leone (including protectorate) – 1,000,000  Northern Rhodesia – 770,000  Southern Rhodesia – 734,000 Zanzibar (UK and Oman) – 250,000 British Somaliland – 300,000 Gambia – 165,000 Swaziland – 90,000  Ireland – 4,390,000  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 Transvaal Colony – 1,400,000 Colony of Natal – 1,200,000  Federated Malay States – 900,000 Nyasaland – 850,000  Straits Settlements – 550,000 Orange River Colony – 400,000 Territory of Papua (UK, de facto Australia) – 400,000 Basutoland – 383,000 Mauritius – 375,000  Hong Kong – 325,000  North Borneo – 300,000  British Guiana – 300,000  Bhutan – 280,000  Newfoundland – 230,000 Cyprus – 240,000  Malta – 195,000 British Solomon Islands – 135,000  Fiji – 125,000 Bechuanaland – 90,000 Bahrain (UK) – 70,000 Grenada – 70,000 Trucial Oman – 70,000 Sikkim – 60,000  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	391,453,775	22.4%
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 Annam – 6,000,000 Tongking – 6,000,000 Algeria – 4,000,000 Cochin-China – 3,200,000 French Sudan – 2,800,000 Madagascar – 2,706,700 Upper Volta – 2,375,000 Tunis – 1,890,000 French Guinea – 1,600,000 Niger – 1,570,000  Cambodia – 1,500,000 Senegal – 1,230,000 Ivory Coast – 950,000 Chad – 810,000 Oubangui-Chari – 630,000 Dahomey – 570,000 Laos – 550,000 Mauretania – 540,000 French India – 280,000 Middle Congo (also called French Congo) – 280,000 Gabon – 240,000 Guadeloupe – 190,000 Kwang-Chou-Wan – 185,000 Martinique – 185,000 Réunion – 178,000 Comoros – 112,000 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 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[2] constituents  Ottoman Empire – 20,832,000 Tripoli – 1,000,000	21,832,000	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	0.7%
15	Abyssinia[3]	14,000,000	0.8%
16	Portuguese Empire constituents Portugal – 5,758,000 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%
17	Mexico[4]	12,050,000	0.7%
18	Morocco[5][6]	9,000,000	0.5%
19	Siam	7,200,000	0.4%
20	Persia	7,000,000	0.4%
21	Romania	6,630,000
22	Belgium	6,136,000
23	Argentina	5,800,000
24	Canada	5,500,000
25	Sweden	5,377,713
26	Afghanistan	5,000,000
27	Nepal	4,789,000
28	Colombia	4,604,000
29	Arabia (mainly includes (Hejaz, Nejd, Hadramaut and Yemen)	4,218,000
30	Australia	4,120,000[7]
31	Peru	3,700,000
32	Switzerland	3,525,300
33	Bulgaria	3,154,000
34	Chile	2,857,000
35	Greece	2,800,000
36	Venezuela	2,741,000
37	Serbia	2,650,000
38	Norway	2,324,800
39	Denmark constituents  Denmark – 2,182,000  Iceland – 82,000 Danish Virgin Islands – 28,000 Faroe Islands – 17,000 Greenland – 13,000	2,322,000
40	Cuba	1,500,000
41	Bolivia	1,500,000
42	Cambodia	1,300,000
44	Ecuador	1,271,000
45	El Salvador	1,116,300
46	Guatemala	1,046,000
47	Uruguay	1,026,000
48	New Zealand	967,000
49	Paraguay	715,000
50	Liberia	664,000
51	Dominican Republic	610,000
52	Nicaragua	515,000
53	Honduras	505,000
54	Muscat and Oman	500,000
55	Sarawak	500,000
56	Costa Rica	341,600
57	Montenegro	320,000
58	Panama	318,000
59	Crete	310,000
60	Luxembourg	252,000
61	Monaco	19,000
62	San Marino	11,000
63	Liechtenstein	10,000
64	Andorra	6,000
65	Neutral Moresnet	3,000
66	Vatican City	700

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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