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1400	1500	1600

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 were having a census in the year 1500 (which were on various dates in that year).

Rank	Country/Territory	Population c. 1500 estimate	Percentage of World Population
-	World^[1]	438,000,000	-
1	Ming Empire^[2]	125,000,000	28.5
2	Ashikaga shogunate ^[3]	17,000,000	3.9
3	Domains of the French Crown Kingdom of France^[4] - 15,000,000 Duchy of Milan^[4] - 1,250,000 Andorra - ?	16,250,000	3.7
4	Holy Roman Empire^[5] Archduchy of Austria - ? Republic of the Swiss^[6] - 745,000 Kingdom of Bohemia - ? Duchy of Bavaria - ? Margraviate of Brandenburg - ? Duchy of Württemberg - ? Saxony - ? Margraviate of Baden - ? Thuringian states - ? Landgraviate of Hesse - ? Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - ? Nassau - ? Bishopric of Würzburg - ? County of Oldenburg - ? Duchy of Luxemburg - ? Vogtland - ? Principality of Lippe - ? Mecklenburg - ? Anhalt-Dessau - ? Prince-Bishopric of Münster - ? Anhalt-Dessau - ? Anhalt-Köthen - ? County of Schaumburg - ? Liechtenstein - ? Archbishopric of Salzburg- ? Principality of Calenberg - ? Electorate of Mainz - ? Electorate of Trier - ? Electorate of Cologne - ? Electoral Palatinate - ? Duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg - ? Saxe-Lauenburg - ? Archbishopric of Magdeburg - ? Hamburg - ? Lübeck - ? Schleswig - ? Holstein - ? Bishopric of Lübeck - ? Bishopric of Trent - ? East Frisia - ? Margravate of Mantua Duchy of Modena and Reggio - ? Duchy of Pomerania - ? Duchy of Urbino - ? Episcopal principality of Utrecht - ? Principality of Ansbach - ? Mixed Imperial City of Augsburg - ? Duchy of Cleves - ? Guelders - ? Prince-Bishopric of Liège - ?	16,000,000	3.7
5	Ottoman Empire ^[7] Anatolia - ? Bulgaria - ? Serbia - ? Habesh Eyalet - ? Albania - ? Wallachia - ?	11,000,000	2.5
6	Spanish Empire Crown of Castile^[8] - 7,000,000 Crown of Aragon^[4] - 950,000 Kingdom of Sicily^[6] - 600,000 Andorra - ?	8,550,000	2.0
7	Union of Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Croatia^[9]^[10] Kingdom of Hungary - ? Kingdom of Croatia - ? Principality of Transylvania - ?	4,000,000	0.9
8	Grand Duchy of Muscovy Pskov Republic - ? Qasim Khanate - ?	?	?
9	Joseon	?	?
10	Polish–Lithuanian Union Kingdom of Poland - ? Grand Duchy of Lithuania - ? State of the Teutonic Order - ?	?	?
11	Kingdom of Portugal^[8]	3,000,000	0.7
12	English Crown Kingdom of England^[6] - 2,100,000 Lordship of Ireland^[11]^[12] - 250,000 ^[13] Wales^[6] - 400,000	2,750,000	0.6
13	Papal States^[4]	2,000,000	0.5
14	Kingdom of Naples^[4]	2,000,000	0.5
15	Republic of Venice^[4] Venetian Italy - ? Venetian Dalmatia - ? Istria - ? Venetian Albania - ? Tinos - ? Kingdom of Candia - ? Duchy of the Archipelago Ionian Islands under Venetian rule - ? Venetian Cyprus - ?	1,500,000	0.3
16	Republic of Florence^[4]	750,000	0.2
17	Ayutthaya Kingdom	?	?
18	Ethiopian Empire	?	?
19	Dutch Republic	?	?
20	Kingdom of Sweden Sweden - ? Finland - ?	?	?
21	Denmark–Norway Denmark - ? Norway^[6] - 240,000 Iceland- ? Greenland - ?	?	?
22	Kingdom of Scotland ]]	?	?
23	Kingdom of Lan Xang	?	?
24	Trucial Sheikhs	?	?
25	Vijayanagara Empire^[14] Nayakas of Chitradurga - ? Kingdom of Mysore - ? Nayakas of Keladi - ? Madurai Nayak dynasty - ? Thanjavur Nayak kingdom - ? Nayaks of Gingee - ?	4,000,000	0.9
26	Tondaiman	?	?
27	Đại Việt	?	?
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	Kingdom of Morocco	?	?
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	Manchu	?	?
46	Kingdom of Kozhikode	?	?
47	File:Stemma.Pico. della.Mirandola.jpg Duchy of Mirandola	?	?
48	Duchy of Modena and Reggio	?	?
49	Adil Shahi dynasty	?	?
50	Qutb Shahi dynasty	?	?
51	Garhwal Kingdom	?	?
52	Pandyan dynasty	?	?
53	Kingdom of Middag	?	?
54	Most Serene Republic of San Marino	?	?
55	Ag Qoyunlu	?	?
56	Shirvan	?	?
57	Marashis	?	?
58	Paduspanids	?	?
59	Mihrabanids	?	?
60	Afrasiyab dynasty	?	?
61	Kingdom of Kartli	?	?
62	Kingdom of Imereti	?	?
63	Samtskhe-Saatabago	?	?
64	Kingdom of Kakheti	?	?
65	Aceh Sultanate	?	?
66	Samudera Pasai Sultanate	?	?
67	Adal Sultanate	?	?
68	Ahmadnagar Sultanate	?	?
69	Bahmani Sultanate	?	?
70	Ahom kingdom	?	?
71	Yemen	?	?
72	Avar Khanate	?	?
73	Alodia	?	?
74	Kingdom of Arakan	?	?
75	File:Coat of arms of Akanland.jpg Bonoman	?	?
76	File:Coat of arms of Akanland.jpg Denkyira	?	?
77	Astrakhan Khanate	?	?
78	Golden Horde	?	?
79	Aztec Empire	?	?
80	Sultanate of Bali	?	?
81	Delhi Sultanate	?	?
82	Benin Empire	?	?
83	Duchy of Brittany	?	?
84	Bruneian Empire Maynila Sultanate of Sulu	?	?
85	Tondo	?	?
86	Malacca Sultanate	?	?
87	Kingdom of Kotte Jaffna kingdom	?	?
88	Moghulistan	?	?
89	Four Oirat	?	?
90	Champa	?	?
91	Cherokee	?	?
92	Republic of Cospaia	?	?
93	Crimean Khanate	?	?
94	Muscogee	?	?
95	Gujarat Sultanate	?	?
96	Malwa Sultanate	?	?
97	Garha-Mandla	?	?
98	Chanda-Sirpur	?	?
99	Deogarh-Nagpur	?	?
100	Sheikdom of al-Hassa	?	?
101	Hausa Kingdoms	?	?
102	Hejaz	?	?
103	Wyandot people	?	?
104	Inca Empire	?	?
105	Iroquois	?	?
106	Bornu Empire	?	?
107	Kashmir	?	?
108	Kazakh Khanate	?	?
109	Knights Hospitaller	?	?
110	Cambodia	?	?
111	Khandesh Sultanate	?	?
112	Khanate of Kazan	?	?
113	Leinster	?	?
114	Lan Na	?	?
115	Sultanate of Makassar	?	?
116	Sultanate of Maldives	?	?
117	Mamluk Sultanate	?	?
118	Mali Empire	?	?
119	Maya	?	?
120	Manipur	?	?
121	Kingdom of Mutapa	?	?
122	Thomond	?	?
123	Kingdom of Ormond	?	?
124	Kingdom of Desmond	?	?
125	Kingdom of Mrauk U	?	?
126	Northern Yuan dynasty	?	?
127	Kara Del	?	?
128	Monaco	?	?
129	Nogai Horde	?	?
130	Nepal	?	?
131	Fartak ^[15]	?	?
132	Union of Viscounty of Béarn and Kingdom of Navarre	?	?
133	Timurid Empire	?	?
134	Sharifate of Mecca	?	?
135	Hafsid dynasty	?	?
136	Ormus	?	?
137	Kingdom of Tlemcen	?	?
138	Oman	?	?
139	Gajapati Kingdom	?	?
140	Oyo Empire	?	?
141	Hanthawaddy Kingdom	?	?
142	Myanmar	?	?
143	Terra Mariana	?	?
144	Republic of Siena	?	?
145	Khanate of Sibir	?	?
146	Shawnee	?	?
147	Shan States	?	?
148	Swahili people	?	?
149	Sukhothai Kingdom	?	?
150	Songhai Empire	?	?
151	Sindh	?	?
152	Kingdom of Ava	?	?
153	Ulster	?	?
154	Venad	?	?
155	Phagmodrupa Dynasty	?	?
156	Rinpungpa	?	?
157	Tír Eoghain	?	?
158	Principality of Zeta	?	?
159	Zapotec civilization	?	?
160	Jysan ^[15]	?	?

Notes

References

^ Angus Maddison, 2003, The World Economy: Historical Statistics, Vol. 2, OECD, Paris. (2008, ggdc.net)
^ 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.
^ Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones, "Atlas of World Population History", Facts on File, New York (1978), ISBN 0-7139-1031-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Europe, 1500-1600". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
^ John Pike. "Holy Roman Empire - 1500 - The German Empire".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Grigg, D. B. "Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b "Castile, Aragon, Granada, and Portugal 1400-1517". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
^ "Tacitus: Historical Atlas". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ Miller, Jaroslav. "Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ Connolly, S. J. "Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630".
^ "Map of Control of Ireland in 1500".
^ 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.
^ [url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCqiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=vijayanagar+empire+population&source=bl&ots=hcWrOCx9N5&sig=ncGlhGzfW7tBNN5jEZrtmzDtEk4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE_baH8pbOAhVD5yYKHRXaAYoQ6AEITTAG#v=onepage&q=vijayanagar%20empire%20population&f=false "Globalising Migration History: The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries)"]. Retrieved 28 July 2016. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing pipe in: |url= (help)
^ ^a ^b Thomas Lessman, Map of Eastern Hemisphere in 1500 http://www.worldhistorymaps.info/images/East-Hem_1500ad.jpg

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)

[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] Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones, "Atlas of World Population History", Facts on File, New York (1978), ISBN 0-7139-1031-3.

[Europe,_1500-1600-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Europe, 1500-1600". Retrieved 19 July 2016.

[globalsecurity.org-5] John Pike. "Holy Roman Empire - 1500 - The German Empire".

[Population_Growth_and_Agrarian_Change:_An_Historical_Perspective-6] Grigg, D. B. "Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective". Retrieved 19 July 2016.

[7] 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.

[Castile,_Aragon,_Granada,_and_Portugal_1400-1517-8] "Castile, Aragon, Granada, and Portugal 1400-1517". Retrieved 19 July 2016.

[Tacitus-9] "Tacitus: Historical Atlas". Retrieved 25 July 2016.

[Urban_Societies_in_East-Central_Europe,_1500–1700-10] Miller, Jaroslav. "Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700". Retrieved 25 July 2016.

[Contested_Island:_Ireland_1460-1630-11] Connolly, S. J. "Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630".

[Map_of_Control_of_Ireland_in_1500-12] "Map of Control of Ireland in 1500".

[13] 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.

[Globalising_Migration_History:_The_Eurasian_Experience-14] [url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCqiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=vijayanagar+empire+population&source=bl&ots=hcWrOCx9N5&sig=ncGlhGzfW7tBNN5jEZrtmzDtEk4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE_baH8pbOAhVD5yYKHRXaAYoQ6AEITTAG#v=onepage&q=vijayanagar%20empire%20population&f=false "Globalising Migration History: The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries)"]. Retrieved 28 July 2016. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing pipe in: |url= (help)

[World_Map_1500-15] Thomas Lessman, Map of Eastern Hemisphere in 1500 http://www.worldhistorymaps.info/images/East-Hem_1500ad.jpg

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