List of countries by population in 1600

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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 were having a census in the year 1600 (which were on various dates in that year).

Rank	Country/Territory	Population c. 1600 estimate	Percentage of World Population
-	World	579,000,000	-
1	Ming Empire	160,000,000	27.6
2	Mughal Empire [1][2]	88,000,000	15.2
3	Iberian Union [3] Kingdom of Spain - 8,240,000 New Spain - 5,470,000 Peru - 4,690,000 Kingdom of Naples - 2,250,000 Portugal - 2,000,000 Spanish Netherlands (Belgium) - 2,000,000 Kingdom of Sicily - 1,800,000 Philippines - 667,000 Viceroyalty of Brazil - 100,000 New Granada - ? Río de la Plata - ? Chile - ? Guatemala - ? Cuba - ? Puerto Rico - ? Yucatán - ? Provincias Internas - ? Viceroyalty of Sardinia - ? Duchy of Milan - ? Duchy of Luxemburg - ? Franche-Comté - ? Bahrain - ?	29,977,000	5.2
4	Ottoman Empire [4] Anatolia - 7,275,000 Egypt Eyalet - 5,000,000 Ottoman Algeria - 2,250,000 Bulgaria - 1,250,000 Syria - 1,175,000 Iraq- 1,070,000 Serbia - 1,057,000 Beylik of Tunis - 1,000,000 Ottoman Tripolitania - 500,000 Sidon Eyalet - 292,000 Bosnia Eyalet - 449,000 Moldavia	236,000 Palestine - 161,000 Ottoman Cyprus - 98,000 Habesh Eyalet - ? Albania - ? Wallachia - ? Eyalet of the Archipelago - ?	26,000,000	4.5
5	Holy Roman Empire [4] Republic of the Swiss - 1,000,000  Kingdom of Bohemia - ? Electorate of Bavaria - ? Margraviate of Brandenburg - ? Württemberg - ? Saxony - ? Margraviate of Baden - ? Thuringian states - ? Hesse-Darmstadt - ?  Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - ?  Nassau - ? Bishopric of Würzburg - ? Oldenburg - ? Duchy of Luxemburg - ? 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- ? Hannover - ? Mainz - ? Trier - ? Cologne - ? Electoral Palatinate - ? Brunswick-Luneburg - ? Saxe-Lauenburg - ? Münster - ? Magdeburg - ? Hamburg - ? Hesse-Homburg - ? Lübeck - ? Schleswig - ? Holstein - ? Bishopric of Lübeck - ? Bishopric of Trent - ?	20,300,000	3.5
6	Kingdom of France Kingdom of Navarre - ?	20,000,000	3.5
7	Tokugawa shogunate	18,500,000	3.2
8	Tsardom of Russia	14,000,000	2.4
9	Joseon [4]	9,879,000	1.7
10	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Royal Prussia - ?	6,700,000	1.1
11	British Crown Kingdom of England - 4,150,000 Kingdom of Ireland - 1,200,000 Wales - 250,000	5,600,000	1.0
12	Habsburg Monarchy [4] [5] Archduchy of Austria - 2,500,0000 Kingdom of Hungary - 1,250,000  Kingdom of Bohemia - 1,800,000 Kingdom of Croatia - ? Principality of Transylvania - ?	5,550,000	?
13	Đại Việt [4]	4,447,000	?
14	Persia [6]	3,200,000	0.6
15	Kingdom of Morocco [4]	2,250,000	?
16	Myanmar [4]	2,380,000	?
17	Ayutthaya Kingdom [4]	2,236,000	?
18	Ethiopian Empire [4]	2,104,000	?
19	Dutch Republic	1,500,000	0.3
20	Kingdom of Sweden[7] Sweden - 900,000 Finland - 300,000 Estland - 100,000	1,300,000	0.2
21	Denmark–Norway[8][9][10] Denmark - 570,000 Norway- 400,000 Iceland- 38,700 Greenland - ?	1,000,000	0.2
22	Kingdom of Scotland	400,000	0.1
23	Kingdom of Lan Xang [4]	319,000	?
24	Trucial Sheikhs [4]	35,000	?
25	Madurai Nayak dynasty	?	?
26	Tondaiman	?	?
27	Nayakas of Keladi	?	?
28	Kingdom of Kongo	?	?
29	Arakan	?	?
30	Taungoo Empire	?	?
31	Duchy of Prussia	?	?
32	Khanate of Khiva	?	?
33	Funj	?	?
34	Ryukyu Kingdom	?	?
35	Crimean Khanate	?	?
36	Principality of Moldavia	?	?
37	Papal States	?	?
38	Republic of Ragusa	?	?
39	Duchy of Parma	?	?
40	Duchy of Savoy	?	?
41	Republic of Genoa	?	?
42	Grand Duchy of Tuscany	?	?
43	Duchy of Urbino	?	?
44	Republic of Lucca	?	?
45	Duchy of Mantua	?	?
46		?	?
47	Duchy of Mirandola	?	?
48	Duchy of Modena and Reggio	?	?
49	Chitradurga	?	?
50	Kingdom of Mysore	?	?
51	Garhwal Kingdom	?	?
52	Thanjavur Maratha kingdom	?	?
53	Kingdom of Middag	?	?
54	Republic of Venice Venetian Italy - ? Venetian Dalmatia - ? Istria - ? Venetian Albania - ? Ionian Islands under Venetian rule - ? Tinos - ? Kingdom of Candia - ?	?	?
55	Kingdom of Kozhikode	?	?

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See also

• List of countries by population
• List of countries by population in 1800
• List of countries by population in 1900
• List of countries by population in 1907
• List of countries by population in 2000
• List of countries by population in 2005

Notes

References

1. "Asian Population History". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
2. "The Cambridge Economic History of India: Volume 1, C.1200-c.1750". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
3. "Kingdom of Naples". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
4. "Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1". Retrieved 4 May 2016.
5. "Population of 17th Century Europe". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
6. "Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
7. "Historical Population of Scandinavia". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
8. "Historical Population of Scandinavia". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
9. "History of Iceland". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
10. "Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective". Retrieved 15 April 2016.

• 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)

http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/population/scandinavia.htm

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