List of countries by population in 1700

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This is a list of countries by population in 1700. Estimated 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, primarily Angus Maddison.

Country/Territory Population
estimate
c. 1700
Percentage of
World
Population
  World 682,300,000
Mughal Empire
Subdivisions
    • Bengal Subah
    • Jaisalmer – ?
    • Bikaner – ?
    • Marwar – ?
    • Mewar – ?
    • Amber – ?
    • Dungarpur – ?
    • Kotah – ?
    • Gondi states – ?
158,400,000 23%
Qing Empire
Subdivisions
    • Outer Mongolia Governorate – 619,000
    • Kumul Khanate – ?
    • Sichuan Province Tusi – ?
    • Guizhou Province Tusi – ?
    • Guangxi Province Tusi – ?
    • Yunnan Province Tusi – ?
    • Taiwan – ?
100,000,000–150,000,000 22%
Ottoman Empire
subdivisions
    • Anatolia – 8,400,000
    • Ottoman Egypt – 5,400,000
vassal states
    • Crimean Khanate - 2,740,000
    • Principality of Wallachia – 600,000
    • Principality of Moldavia - 480,000
27,519,000 4.0%
Holy Roman Empire
subdivisions
    • Bohemian Crown – 3,242,000
    • Spanish Netherlands – 2,000,000+
    • Archduchy of Austria – 2,500,000
    • Saxony – 2,000,000
    • Savoyard state – 1,396,000
    • Electorate of Bavaria – 1,000,000
    • Margraviate of Brandenburg – ~1,000,000
    • Grand Duchy of Tuscany – ~1,000,000
    • Duchy of Milan – ?
    • Duchy of Württemberg – 340,000
    • 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
    • Saxe-Lauenburg – ?
    • Münster – ?
    • Magdeburg – ?
    • Hamburg – 70,000
    • Hesse-Homburg – ?
    • Lübeck – ?
    • Schleswig – ?
    • Holstein – ?
    • Bishopric of Lübeck – ?
    • Principality of Ansbach – ?
27,400,000 4.1%
Tokugawa Japan 27,000,000 4.0%
Spain and possessions
subdivisions
    • Kingdom of Spain – 8,770,000
    • 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%
France 21,471,000 3.1%
Tsardom of Russia 13,616,000 2.0%
Joseon 13,500,000 2.0%
Safavid Iran 10,000,000 1.5%
Habsburg monarchy
subdivisions
    • Kingdom of Hungary – 4,000,000
    • Kingdom of Bohemia – 3,242,000
    • Archduchy of Austria – 2,500,000
    • Principality of Transylvania – 800,000
    • Kingdom of Croatia – 647,000
    • Duchy of Carinthia – 248,000
    • Kingdom of Slavonia – ?
9,989,000 1.5%
England, Scotland, and possessions
subdivisions
    • Kingdom of England – 5,108,500
    • Kingdom of Ireland – 2,060,051
    • Kingdom of Scotland – 1,200,000
    • Wales – 366,500
    • British America – 250,888
      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 – 145,300
    constituents
      • Barbados – 65,500
      • Colony of Jamaica – 49,300
      • Leeward Islands – 30,500
    • British East India Company
      • Madras Presidency - 400,000
9,531,239 1.4%
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 9,000,000 1.3%
Lê dynasty (Đại Việt) 8,000,000 1.2%
Morocco and possessions
subdivisions
    • Pashalik of Timbuktu – ?
4,000,000 0.5%
Portuguese Empire
subdivisions
    • Portugal – 2,000,000
    • Portuguese East Africa – 1,500,000
    • Colonial Brazil – 300,000
    • State of Maranhão – ?
    • Portuguese North Africa – ?
    • Portuguese West Africa – ?
    • Portuguese India – ?
    • Portuguese Macau – ?
    • Portuguese Timor – ?
    • Colonia del Sacramento – ?
3,800,000+ 0.6%+
          Nepal 3,064,000 0.4%
Ahom kingdom 2,000,000-3,000,000 0.3%-0.4%
Sweden
subdivisions
    • Kingdom of Sweden – 1,700,000
    • Finland- 600,000
    • Estonia- 160,000
    • Bremen-Verden – 50,000
    • Karelia – 100,000
    • Ingria – 30,000
    • Livonia – 200,000
    • Riga – 60,000
    • Western Pomerania – 100,000
3,000,000 0.4%
Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) 2,500,000 0.4%
Ethiopian Empire 2,338,000 0.3%
Brandenburg-Prussia
subdivisions
    • Duchy of Prussia – ?
    • Margraviate of Brandenburg- ?
1,500,000 0.2%
Dutch Republic
subdivisions
    • Dutch Republic – 1,794,000
    • Dutch East India Company- ?
    • Dutch West India Company- ?
1,794,000 0.3%
Cambodia 1,650,000 0.2%
Savoyard state
subdivisions
    • Piedmont – 950,000
    • Savoy – 300,000
    • Aosta – 70,000
    • Nice – 60,000
    • Oneglia – 16,000
1,396,000 0.2%
Denmark–Norway
subdivisions
    • Denmark – 745,000
    • Norway – 540,000
    • Iceland – 50,400
    • Danish India – 15,000
    • Greenland – 5,000
1,300,400 0.2%
Swiss Confederacy 1,260,000 0.2%
          Rozvi Empire 1,000,000+ 0.1%
          Dzungaria 1,000,000 0.1%
Grand Duchy of Tuscany ~1,000,000 0.1%
Kingdom of Kongo 790,000 0.12%
          Lan Xang 371,000 0.05%
Ryukyu Kingdom 141,187 0.02%
Hospitaller Malta[citation needed] 50,000 0.01%
          Rapa Nui (Easter Island) 3,000-4,000 0.0004%-0.001%

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