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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 estimate Percentage of World Population
World 579,000,000–
Ming Dynasty[1] [2] 60,000,000–150,000,000
Mughal Empire[3] ~115,000,000
27,000,000+ – 34,000,000+
Iberian Union and possessions28,745,000
Ottoman Empire[4] 28,740,000
18,000,000+ - 20,000,000+
Kingdom of Morocco and possessions[5] 13,060,860
Tokugawa Japan[6] 12,000,000
Joseon[7] 11,000,000
[8] ~9,000,000
Safavid Iran[9] Under 5,000,000 to near 10,000,000
[10] 7,800,000
[11] 7,950,000
England and possessions[12] 5,600,000
Lê dynasty (Đại Việt)5,500,000
Taungoo dynasty (Burma)[13] [14] 3,500,000
Ahom kingdom2,000,000-3,000,000[15] -
Northern Yuan[16] ~2,760,0000.5%
Malla2,750,000
Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam)[17] c. 2,500,000
[18] 2,104,000
Republic of Venice[19] 2,000,000
Kingdom of Kongo[20] 2,000,0000.3%
Jianzhou Jurchen Confederation[21] <2,000,0000.3%
1,500,000
Cambodia1,419,000
Sweden[22] 1,361,000
[23] [24] [25] 1,100,000
[26] 800,000
[27] 650,000
Kingdom of Lan Xang319,000
Malay Sultanates of Johor, Kedah, Pattani, and Perak[28] <200,000 (together)
Kingdom of Mrauk U160,000+[29] [30]
Arab Emirates35,000
Nan Madol (Saudeleur dynasty)25,000[31]
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)[32] 15,000
The source used here calculates the said nations population by modern day borders, so the estimates are likely inaccurate.

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References

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rowe, William T.. China's Last Empire: The Great Qing. 2009. 91.
  2. Book: Yi, Zhongtian . The End of the Empire . Fudan University Press . November 2007 . 254.
  3. Book: Irfan Habib, Dharma Kumar, Tapan Raychaudhuri. The Cambridge Economic History of India. 1. 170. 1987. Cambridge University Press.
  4. Web site: religiya-karaimov .
  5. Book: Walker, Sheila S.. African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas. 2001. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-7425-0165-2. en.
  6. Web site: Population Trends in Tokugawa Japan:1600–1868l=https://brill.com/view/book/9789004212930/Bej.9781906876098.i-382_009.xml.
  7. Web site: Growth of World Population GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820. 29 September 2017. Maddison. 27 July 2016 .
  8. 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.
  9. Book: Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600–1750. 9780521525978. 15 April 2016. Dale. Stephen Frederic. 15 August 2002.
  10. Wilson, p. 788
  11. Charles A. Frazee, World History the Easy Way, Barron's Educational Series,, Google Print, 50
  12. Web site: European Population History. 30 June 2016.
  13. Book: Lieberman . Victor B. . Burmese Administrative Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580-1760 . 14 July 2014 . Princeton University Press . 978-1-4008-5585-8 . 18, 21 . en.
  14. Book: Lieberman . Victor B. . Victor . Lieberman . Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C 800-1830 . 14 May 2014 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-511-65854-9 . 52, 175 . en.
  15. "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." Book: Guha, Medieval Northeast India:Polity, Society and Economy, 1200-1750 A.D. 26–30.
  16. Book: Chuluun, S. . Mongols: XYII-early XX centuries . 2014.
  17. Book: Lieberman . Victor . Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830 (Studies in Comparative World History) . 2003 . 295 . 978-0521800860. Kindle. "Siam's population must have increased from c. 2,500,000 in 1600 to 4,000,000 in 1800."
  18. Book: Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1. 9781628941012. 4 May 2016. Avakov. Alexander V.. April 2015.
  19. Gregory Hanlon, "Twilight of a Military Tradition", 1997, p. 122.
  20. Heywood . Linda M. . 2009 . Slavery and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo: 1491-1800 . The Journal of African History . 50 . 1 . 1–22 . 0021-8537.
  21. Book: Crossley . Pamela Kyle . Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China . Siu . Helen F. . Sutton . Donald S. . 2006-01-19 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-23015-6 . en.
  22. The combined population of Sweden (760,000), Finland (400,000), and Estonia (101,000). Avakov, p. 16.
  23. Web site: Historical Population of Scandinavia. 15 April 2016.
  24. Web site: History of Iceland. 15 April 2016. 27 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210227091108/https://www.iceland.is/the-big-picture/people-society/history. dead.
  25. Book: Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective. 9780521296359. 15 April 2016. Grigg. D. B.. 18 December 1980.
  26. R. E. Tyson, "Population Patterns", in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (New York, 2001), pp. 487–8.
  27. Smith, p. 19: 500,000 on the mainland and 150,000 in Corsica.
  28. 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.
  29. Web site: Magazine . Smithsonian . Hammer . Joshua . The Hidden City of Myanmar . Smithsonian Magazine . en.
  30. Web site: The Lost City of Mrauk U, Once As Prosperous as London Seasia.co . Good News from Southeast Asia . 23 January 2018 . en.
  31. Web site: Nan Madol (U.S. National Park Service) . www.nps.gov . en.
  32. West, Barbara A. (2008) Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania . Infobase Publishing. p. 684.

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