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This is a list of countries by population in 1600. Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in that year. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1, pages 15 to 17, which cover population figures from the year 1600 divided into modern borders. Avakov, in turn, cites a variety of sources, mostly Angus Maddison.
| Country/Territory | Population c. 1600 estimate | Percentage of World Population |
|---|---|---|
| World | 579,000,000 | – |
 Ming Dynasty[1][2]Subdivisions
|
60,000,000–150,000,000 | 27.6% |
 Mughal Empire[3][4][a]Subdivisions
|
~115,000,000 | 19.9% |
 Holy Roman Empire[4][b]
subdivisions
|
27,000,000+ – 34,000,000+ | 5.2% |
 Iberian Union and possessions
subdivisions
|
28,745,000 | 5.0% |
 Ottoman Empire[4][27]
subdivisions
vassal states
|
28,740,000 | 5.0% |
 Kingdom of France[4]
subdivisions
|
18,000,000+ - 20,000,000+ | 3.5% |
 Kingdom of Morocco and possessions[4][32][d]
subdivisions
|
13,060,860 | 2.3% |
 Tokugawa Japan[33]
|
12,000,000 | 2.1% |
 Joseon[34]
|
11,000,000 | 1.6% |
 Tsardom of Russia[35]
|
~9,000,000 | 1.6% |
 Safavid Iran[36]
|
Under 5,000,000 to near 10,000,000 | 1.3% |
| Habsburg Monarchy[37]
subdivisions
|
7,800,000 | 1.3% |
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth[38]
subdivisions
|
7,950,000 | 1.4% |
 England and possessions[39]
subdivisions
|
5,600,000 | 1.0% |
| Lê dynasty (Đại Việt)[40] | 5,500,000 | 0.9% |
 Taungoo dynasty (Burma)[41][42][e]
subdivisions
|
3,500,000 | 0.6% |
| Ahom kingdom | 2,000,000-3,000,000[46] | 0.3%-0.5% |
 Northern Yuan[47]
|
~2,760,000 | 0.5% |
| Malla[4] | 2,750,000 | 0.5% |
 Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam)[48]
|
c. 2,500,000 | 0.4% |
 Ethiopian Empire[4]
|
2,104,000 | 0.4% |
 Republic of Venice[49]
|
2,000,000 | 0.3% |
 |
2,000,000 | 0.3% |
 Jianzhou Jurchen Confederation[51]
|
<2,000,000 | 0.3% |
 Dutch Republic[4]
|
1,500,000 | 0.3% |
 Cambodia[4]
|
1,419,000 | 0.2% |
 Sweden[52]
subdivisions
|
1,361,000 | 0.2% |
 Denmark–Norway[53][54][55]
subdivisions
|
1,100,000 | 0.2% |
 Kingdom of Scotland[56]
|
800,000 | 0.14% |
 Republic of Genoa[14]
|
650,000 | 0.11% |
| Kingdom of Lan Xang[4] | 319,000 | 0.055% |
| Malay Sultanates of Johor, Kedah, Pattani, and Perak[57] | <200,000 (together) | 0.133% |
| Kingdom of Mrauk U | 160,000+[58][59][f] | 0.107% |
| Arab Emirates[4] | 35,000 | 0.006% |
| Nan Madol (Saudeleur dynasty) | 25,000[60] | 0.004% |
| Rapa Nui (Easter Island)[61] | 15,000 | 0.003% |
The source used here calculates the said nations population by modern day borders, so the estimates are likely inaccurate.
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- ^ Rowe, William T. (2009). China's Last Empire: The Great Qing. p. 91.
- ^ Yi, Zhongtian (November 2007). The End of the Empire. Fudan University Press. p. 254.
- ^ Irfan Habib, Dharma Kumar, Tapan Raychaudhuri (1987). The Cambridge Economic History of India (PDF). Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 170.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN 9781628941012. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ Wilson, p. 795.
- ^ G. Benecke, Society and Politics in Germany, 1500–1750, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, p. 162.
- ^ J.P. Sommerville. "The Holy Roman Empire in the Seventeenth Century". Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2017.. Archived .
- ^ Wilson, p. 788.
- ^ 1.6 million only counts Belgium; the Spanish Netherlands also included Luxembourg and bits of modern Germany and France.
- ^ Preserved Smith. The Social Background of the Reformation. 1920. Page 19.
- ^ Gregory Hanlon. "The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his Soldiers, and his Subjects in the Thirty Years' War." Routledge: May 2014. Page 87.
- ^ Wilson, Peter H. (2009). "Europe's Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War." Allen Lane. Page 18.
- ^ Wilson, p. 23.
- ^ a b Smith, p. 19: 500,000 on the mainland and 150,000 in Corsica.
- ^ a b c d e f Smith, p. 19.
- ^ Wilson, p. 18
- ^ Wilson, p. 18.
- ^ Smith, p. 19: the population of "Parma, Piacenza, and Modena together" is given as 500,000.
- ^ Roughly modern Slovenia.
- ^ Wilson, p. 870: "The Rheinfels branch died out in 1583 and was shared between the other three. As senior line, Hessen-Kassel possessed 6,100 km^2 with 160,000 inhabitants, while Darmstadt had 1,300 km^2 and 50,000 inhabitants and Marburg the remaining quarter." Hesse-Kassel and Marburg were integrated in 1604.
- ^ Wilson, p. 169
- ^ a b c Wilson, p. 17
- ^ Smith, p. 17.
- ^ Figures derived from Ángel Rosenblat (1902–1984).
- ^ Avakov, Alexander V. (April 2015). Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. ISBN 9781628941012. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ M.N. Pearson. "The New Cambridge History of India: The Portuguese in India." 1988. Pages 92–93: "In 1524 there were 450 Portuguese householders in Goa city, and in 1540 about 1800. The former figure refers to 'pure' Portuguese, while the latter includes descendants of Portuguese and local women, in other words mestizos. There were also 3,600 soldiers in the town in 1540. Later in the 1540s, at the time of St Francis Xavier, the city population included 10,000 Indian Christians, 3,000–4,000 Portuguese, and many non-Christians, while outside the city the rest of Ilhas contained 50,000 inhabitants, 80 percent of them Hindu. Recent estimates put the city population at 60,000 in the 1580s, and about 75,000 at 1600, the latter figure including 1,500 Portuguese and mestizos, 20,000 Hindus, and the rest local Christians, Africans, and others. In the 1630s the total population of the Old Conquests — Ilhas, Bardes and Salcette — was perhaps a little more than a quarter of a million... Casualties in the endless skirmishes with Malabaris and others were often substantial. Cholera and malaria also took their toll; one estimate claims that from 1604 to 1634, 25,000 soldiers died in the Royal Hospital in Goa."
- ^ "religiya-karaimov" (PDF).
- ^ At the time, divided between the Eyalet of the Archipelago and the Rumelia Eyalet.
- ^ A. Maddison, The World Economy Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective, 2001
- ^ Keul, István (2009). Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526–1691). BRILL. p. 41. ISBN 978-9004176522.
- ^ a b Murgescu, Bogdan (14 June 2016). Romania si Europa. Polirom. pp. 75–76. ISBN 9789734620418.
- ^ Walker, Sheila S. (2001). African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-0165-2.
- ^ "Population Trends in Tokugawa Japan:1600–1868l=https://brill.com/view/book/9789004212930/Bej.9781906876098.i-382_009.xml".
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Maddison (27 July 2016). "Growth of World Population GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820" (PDF). Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ Avakov, p. 15; the figure is 10.1 million for all of modern European Russia, including the steppe and Caucasian polities that were not yet under the Tsardom of Russia's control.
- ^ Dale, Stephen Frederic (15 August 2002). Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600–1750. ISBN 9780521525978. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Wilson, p. 788
- ^ Charles A. Frazee, World History the Easy Way, Barron's Educational Series, ISBN 0-8120-9766-1, Google Print, 50
- ^ "European Population History". Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ^ Li 1998, p. 160-171.
- ^ Lieberman, Victor B. (14 July 2014). Burmese Administrative Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580-1760. Princeton University Press. p. 18, 21. ISBN 978-1-4008-5585-8.
- ^ Lieberman, Victor B.; Victor, Lieberman (14 May 2014). Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C 800-1830. Cambridge University Press. p. 52, 175. ISBN 978-0-511-65854-9.
- ^ Lieberman 2003: 52, 175
- ^ Lieberman 2003: 175
- ^ a b Lieberman 1984: 21
- ^ "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.
- ^ Chuluun, S. (2014). Mongols: XYII-early XX centuries.
- ^ Lieberman, Victor (2003). Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830 (Studies in Comparative World History) (Kindle ed.). p. 295. ISBN 978-0521800860. "Siam's population must have increased from c. 2,500,000 in 1600 to 4,000,000 in 1800."
- ^ Gregory Hanlon, "Twilight of a Military Tradition", 1997, p. 122.
- ^ Heywood, Linda M. (2009). "Slavery and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo: 1491-1800". The Journal of African History. 50 (1): 1–22. ISSN 0021-8537.
- ^ Crossley, Pamela Kyle; Siu, Helen F.; Sutton, Donald S. (2006-01-19). Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23015-6.
- ^ The combined population of Sweden (760,000), Finland (400,000), and Estonia (101,000). Avakov, p. 16.
- ^ "Historical Population of Scandinavia". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ "History of Iceland". Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Grigg, D. B. (18 December 1980). Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective. ISBN 9780521296359. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ R. E. Tyson, "Population Patterns", in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (New York, 2001), pp. 487–8.
- ^ Avakov, p. 17; population within the borders of all modern Malaysia (encompassing all these states' areas on the Malay peninsula plus a chunk of Borneo) is given as 191,000, while Singapore's is 3,000.
- ^ Magazine, Smithsonian; Hammer, Joshua. "The Hidden City of Myanmar". Smithsonian Magazine.
- ^ "The Lost City of Mrauk U, Once As Prosperous as London | Seasia.co". Good News from Southeast Asia. 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Nan Madol (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
- ^ West, Barbara A. (2008) Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine. Infobase Publishing. p. 684. ISBN 0816071098
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