List of countries by population in 1500

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This is a list of countries by population in 1500. 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.

Country/TerritoryPopulation c. 1500 estimatePercentage of World Population
  World[1]438,000,000-
Ming Empire[2] 125,000,000 28.5%
Domains of the French Crown 16,250,000 3.7%
Vijayanagara Empire[4] 16,000,000 3.7%
Holy Roman Empire[5] 16,000,000 3.7%
Inca Empire[8][9] 12,000,000 2.7%
Ottoman Empire [10] 11,000,000 2.5%
Spanish Empire 8,550,000 2.0%
Ashikaga shogunate [12] 8,000,000 1.8%
Joseon [6] 8,000,000 1.8%
Polish–Lithuanian Union [13] 7,500,000 1.7%
Aztec Empire [9] 6,000,000 1.4%
Mamluk Sultanate[14][15] 4,867,000 1.1%
Union of Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Croatia[16][17] 4,000,000 0.9%
Đại Việt [15] 3,835,000 0.9%
Portuguese Empire[11] 3,000,000 0.7%
English Crown 2,750,000 0.6%
Papal States[3] 2,000,000 0.5%
Kingdom of Naples[3] 2,000,000 0.5%
Kalmar Union[6] 1,690,000 0.4%
Republic of Venice[3] 1,500,000 0.3%
Republic of Florence[3] 750,000 0.2%
Kingdom of Scotland[20] 500,000 0.1%
Malacca Sultanate[4][lower-alpha 2] 135,000 0.0%
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Notes

  1. ↑ Only about 1/3 of Ireland was under the English Crown in 1500 (through direct control by the crown, such as The Pale, or through the Anglo-Irish Lords).
  2. ↑ Population was estimated to be between 65,000 - 200,000.

References

  1. ↑ Angus Maddison, 2003, The World Economy: Historical Statistics, Vol. 2, OECD, Paris. (2008, ggdc.net)
  2. ↑ Edwin Oldfather Reischauer, John King Fairbank, Albert M. Craig (1960) A history of East Asian civilization, Volume 1. East Asia: The Great Tradition, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Europe, 1500-1600". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Globalising Migration History: The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries)". p. 101. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  5. ↑ John Pike. "Holy Roman Empire - 1500 - The German Empire".
  6. 1 2 3 "Appendix B Growth of World Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820 at 'www.ggdc.net/MADDISON/other_books/appendix_B.pdf'". Missing or empty |url= (help)
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Grigg, D. B. "Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  8. ↑ http://howtoperu.com/2012/11/29/inca-population-estimates/
  9. 1 2 ""La catastrophe démographique" (The Demographical Catastrophe"), L'Histoire n°322, July–August 2007, p. 17".
  10. ↑ Behar, Cem, ed. 1996. Osmanlı Đmparatorluğu'nun ve Türkiye'nin nüfusu, 1500-1927. Ankara: T.C. Basbakanlık Devlet Đstatistik Enstitüsü = State Institute of Statistics Prime Ministry Republic of Turkey.
  11. 1 2 "Castile, Aragon, Granada, and Portugal 1400-1517". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  12. ↑ (a) Jean-Noël Biraben, "The History of the Human Population From the First Beginnings to the Present" in "Demography: Analysis and Synthesis: A Treatise in Population" (Eds: Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, Guillaume J. Wunsch) Vol 3, Chapter 66, pp 5–18, Academic Press, San Diego (2005). (b) Jean-Noël Biraben, "An Essay Concerning Mankind's Evolution", Population, Selected Papers, Vol. 4, pp. 1–13 (1980). (c) Jean-Noël Biraben, "Essai sur l'évolution du nombre des hommes", Population Vol. 34 (no. 1), pp. 13–25 (1979).
  13. 1 2 Norman John Greville Pounds. "An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840". Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  14. ↑ Borsch, Stuart J. "The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study".
  15. 1 2 "Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1". Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  16. ↑ "Tacitus: Historical Atlas". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  17. ↑ Miller, Jaroslav. "Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  18. ↑ Connolly, S. J. "Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630". p. 404.
  19. ↑ "Map of Control of Ireland in 1500".
  20. ↑ Houston, R.A. & White, I. D. (Cambridge University Press) (1989). "Scottish Society: 1500-1800 at 'www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam031'". Missing or empty |url= (help)
  • Kurt Witthauer. Bevölkerung der Erde (1958)
  • Calendario Atlante de Agostini, anno 99 (2003)
  • The Columbia Gazetteer of the World (1998)
  • Britannica Book of the Year: World Data (1997)
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