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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 |
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World[1] | 682,000,000 | – |
Mughal Empire[2] Subdivisions
|
158,400,000 | 23% |
Qing Empire[3][4] Subdivisions
|
100,000,000–150,000,000 | 22% |
Ottoman Empire[6][7][8]
subdivisions
vassal states
|
27,519,000 | 4.0% |
Holy Roman Empire[10][11]
subdivisions
|
27,400,000 | 4.0% |
Tokugawa Japan[17][12] | 27,000,000 | 4.0% |
Spain and possessions[18][19][6][7]
subdivisions
|
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[20] | 10,000,000 | 1.5% |
Habsburg monarchy[21][6]
subdivisions
|
9,989,000 | 1.5% |
England, Scotland, and possessions[23][24]
subdivisions
|
9,131,239 | 1.3% |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[28] | 9,000,000 | 1.3% |
Lê dynasty (Đại Việt)[29] | 8,000,000 | 1.2% |
Morocco and possessions[6] subdivisions
|
4,000,000 | 0.5% |
Portuguese Empire[21][30]
subdivisions
|
3,800,000+ | 0.6%+ |
Nepal[6] | 3,064,000 | 0.4% |
Ahom kingdom | 2,000,000-3,000,000[31] | 0.3%-0.4% |
Sweden[21]
subdivisions
|
2,700,000 | 0.4% |
Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam)[6] | 2,500,000 | 0.4% |
Ethiopian Empire | 2,338,000[6] | 0.3% |
Brandenburg-Prussia[32]
subdivisions
|
2,000,000 | 0.2% |
Dutch Republic[21]
subdivisions
|
1,794,000 | 0.3% |
Cambodia[6] | 1,650,000 | 0.2% |
Savoyard state[33]
subdivisions
|
1,396,000 | 0.2% |
Denmark–Norway[21]
subdivisions
|
1,300,400 | 0.2% |
Swiss Confederacy[7] | 1,260,000 | 0.2% |
Rozvi Empire | 1,000,000+[34] | 0.1% |
Dzungaria[35] | 1,000,000 | 0.1% |
Grand Duchy of Tuscany[18] | ~1,000,000 | 0.1% |
Kingdom of Kongo[36] | 790,000 | 0.12% |
Lan Xang[6] | 371,000 | 0.05% |
Ryukyu Kingdom[37] | 141,187 | 0.02% |
Hospitaller Malta | 50,000 | 0.01% |
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)[38] | 3,000-4,000 | 0.0004%-0.001% |
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2016) |
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.
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