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  2. List of countries by population in 1600 - Wikipedia

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    Notes. ^ In 1600 the Mughals ruled roughly 50% of India, which had a population of 113 million at the time according to Avakov. ^ Combining Avakov's listed populations for Germany (16m), Austria (2.5m), Czechia (3.242m), Belgium (1.6m), Switzerland (1m), Slovenia (0.248m), and a third of Italy (4.3m) yields 28.9 million inhabitants; Avakov p.

  3. Population history of China - Wikipedia

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    Population and the Environment in China (Rienner, 1994). abstract; Goldstone, Jack A. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991) covers population change and state breakdown in England, France, Turkey, and China, 1600–1850.

  4. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    Published estimates for the 1st century ("AD 1") suggest uncertainty of the order of 50% (estimates range between 150 and 330 million). Some estimates extend their timeline into deep prehistory, to " 10,000 BC", i.e., the early Holocene, when world population estimates range roughly between 1 and 10 million (with an uncertainty of up to an ...

  5. Demographic history - Wikipedia

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    1500 world population 400-500 million; 1600 world population 500-600 million; 1700 world population 600-700 million; 1800 world population 850-950 million; In the 18th century world population entered a period of accelerated growth. European population reached a peak growth rate of 10 per thousand per year in the second half of the 19th century.

  6. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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    The home and colonial populations of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population figures are for some purposes less relevant for comparison between different empires than their respective shares of the world population at the time ...

  7. History of China - Wikipedia

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    The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...

  8. Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Ming dynasty (/ mɪŋ / MING), [ 7 ] officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell ...

  9. World population - Wikipedia

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    The world's two most populated countries, India and China, together constitute about 36% of the world's population. Africa is the second most populated continent, with around 1.34 billion people, or 17% of the world's population.