List of countries by population in 1907

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This is a list of countries by estimated population in 1907.

Rank	Continent	Population 1907 estimate
-	World	1,700,000,000
1	Asia	900,000,000
2	Europe	400,000,000
3	Africa	over 200,000,000
4	North America	115,000,000
5	South America	36,424,000
6	Oceania	possibly 10,000,000

Rank	Country / Territory	Population 1907 estimate
-	World	1,700,000,000
1	China (Qing Dynasty)	300,000,000 - 400,000,000
2	India (UK)	263,539,000 - 314,417,000
3	Russian Empire	c. 150,000,000
4	United States	87,008,000
5	German Empire	62,010,000
6	Dutch East Indies (Netherlands)	45,880,000
7	Empire of Japan	40,000,000
8	Austria-Hungary	40,000,000
9	United Kingdom	39,700,000
10	France	38,343,000
11	Italy	33,640,700
12	Ottoman Empire	28,000,000
13	Spain	19,671,000
14	Korean Empire	17,000,000
15	Mexico	14,677,000
16	Congo Free State (Belgium)	14,000,000 - 30,000,000
17	Brazil	14,000,000
18	Poland (Russia)	11,138,700
19	Burma (British India)	9,606,000
20	Northern Nigeria (UK)	8,500,000
21	Egypt (UK)	8,000,000
22	Philippines (United States)	8,000,000
23	Southern Nigeria (UK)	7,500,000
24	Siam	7,200,000
25	Persia	7,000,000
26	Romania	6,630,000
27	Belgium	6,136,000
28	Annam (France)	6,000,000
29	Tongking (France)	6,000,000
30	Argentina	5,800,000
31	Portugal	5,758,000
32	Netherlands	5,616,000
33	Canada	5,500,000
34	Sweden	5,377,713
35	Afghanistan	5,000,000
36	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (UK and Egypt)	4,800,000
37	Nepal	4,789,000
38	Colombia	4,604,000
39	Ireland (UK)	4,390,000
40	Arabia (mainly includes (Hejaz, Nejd, Hadramaut and Yemen)	4,218,000
41	Morocco (France)	4,162,000
42	Abyssinia	4,000,000
43	Algeria (France)	4,000,000
44	Australia	4,000,000
45	Ceylon (UK)	3,700,000
46	Peru	3,700,000
47	Switzerland	3,525,300
48	Cameroon (Germany)	3,500,000
49	Formosa (Japan)	3,500,000
50	German East Africa (Germany)	3,500,000
51	Cochin-China (France)	3,200,000
52	Bulgaria	3,154,000
53	Chile	2,867,000
54	Greece	2,800,000
55	French Sudan (France)	2,800,000
56	Gold Coast (UK)	2,800,000
57	Venezuela	2,741,000
58	Madagascar (France)	2,706,700
59	Ruanda-Urundi (Germany)	2,700,000
60	Serbia	2,650,000
61	Portuguese East Africa (Portugal)	2,600,000
62	Grand Duchy of Finland (Russia)	2,431,000
63	Portuguese West Africa (Portugal)	2,400,000
64	Upper Volta (France)	2,375,000
65	Norway	2,324,800
66	Croatia-Slavonia (Austria-Hungary)	2,201,000
67	Denmark	2,182,000
68	Tunis (France)	1,890,000
69	Uganda (UK)	1,800,000
70	Kenya (UK)	1,700,000
71	French Guinea (France)	1,600,000
72	Niger (France)	1,570,000
73	Cape Colony (UK)	2,500,000
74	Cambodia (France)	1,500,000
75	Cuba	1,500,000
76	Bolivia	1,500,000
77	Transvaal (UK)	1,400,000
78	Ecuador	1,271,000
79	Bukhara (Russia)	1,250,000
80	Senegal (France)	1,230,000
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary)	1,200,000
82	Natal (UK)	1,200,000
83	El Salvador	1,116,300
84	Porto Rico (United States)	1,100,000
85	Guatemala	1,046,000
86	Uruguay	1,026,000
87	Sierra Leone (UK) (including protectorate)	1,000,000
88	Tripoli (Ottoman Empire)	1,000,000
89	New Zealand	967,000
90	Ivory Coast (France)	950,000
91	Togoland (Germany)	920,000
91	Federated Malay States (UK)	900,000
92	Nyasaland (UK)	850,000
93	Jamaica (UK)	820,000
94	Chad (France)	810,000
95	Northern Rhodesia (UK)	770,000
96	Southern Rhodesia (UK)	734,000
97	Paraguay	715,000
98	Liberia	664,000
99	Oubangui-Chari (France)	630,000
100	Dominican Republic	610,000
101	Dahomey (France)	570,000
102	Straits Settlements (UK)	550,000
103	Laos (France)	550,000
104	Mauretania (France)	540,000
105	Nicaragua	515,000
106	Honduras	505,000
107	Muscat and Oman	500,000
108	Sarawak	500,000
109	Portuguese India (Portugal)	475,000
110	Italian Somaliland (Italy)	400,000
111	Khiva (Russia)	400,000
112	Orange River Colony (earlier called Orange Free State) (UK)	400,000
113	Territory of Papua (UK, de facto Australia)	400,000
114	Basutoland (UK)	383,000
115	Mauritius (UK)	375,000
116	Canary Islands (Spain)	360,000
117	Costa Rica	341,600
118	Hong Kong (UK)	325,000
119	Montenegro	320,000
120	Trinidad and Tobago (UK)	320,000
121	Panama	318,000
122	Crete	310,000
123	North Borneo (UK)	300,000
124	British Guiana (UK)	300,000
125	British Somaliland (UK)	300,000
126	Portuguese Timor (Portugal)	300,000
127	Bhutan	280,000
128	French India (France)	280,000
129	Middle Congo (also called French Congo) (France)	280,000
130	Azores (Portugal)	260,000
131	Luxembourg	252,000
132	Zanzibar (UK)	250,000
133	Cyprus (UK)	240,000
134	Newfoundland	230,000
135	Gabon (France)	240,000
136	Eritrea (Italy)	220,000
137	German South West Africa (Germany)	210,000
138	Portuguese Guinea (Portugal)	200,000
140	Malta (UK)	195,000
141	Guadeloupe (France)	190,000
142	German New Guinea (Germany)	188,000
143	Kwang-Chou-Wan (France)	185,000
144	Martinique (France)	185,000
145	Barbados (UK)	182,000
146	Réunion (France)	178,000
147	Gambia (UK)	165,000
148	Madeira (Portugal)	160,000
149	Hawaii (United States)	154,000
150	Spanish Guinea (or Rio Muni) (Spain)	150,000
151	Cape Verde (Portugal)	140,000
152	British Solomon Islands (UK)	135,000
153	Fiji (UK)	125,000
154	Comoros (France)	112,000
155	Bechuanaland (UK)	90,000
156	Swaziland (UK)	90,000
157	Dutch Guiana (Netherlands)	86,000
158	Iceland (Denmark)	82,000
159	Macau (Portugal)	80,000
160	Bahrain (UK)	70,000
161	Grenada (UK)	70,000
162	Trucial Oman (UK)	70,000
163	Sao Tomé and Principe (Portugal)	61,000
164	Kiaochow (Germany)	60,000
165	Sikkim (British India)	60,000
166	Isle of Man (UK)	57,000
167	Maldives (UK)	56,000
168	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Bahamas (UK)	55,000
169	Jersey (UK)	54,000
170	New Caledonia (France)	54,000
171	French Somaliland (France)	50,000
172	German Solomon Islands (Germany)	50,000
173	and New Hebrides (shared between UK and France)	50,000
174	Saint Lucia (UK)	50,000
175	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (UK)	49,000
176	Aden Protectorate (UK)	45,000
177	Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)	44,000
178	British Honduras (UK)	45,000
179	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Saint Kitts (with Nevis) (UK)	45,000
180	Guernsey (UK)	42,000
181	Kuwait (UK)	40,000
182	Rio de Oro (Spain)	40,000
183	German Samoa	37,000
184	Caroline Islands (Germany)	36,000
185	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Antigua (with Barbuda and Redonda) (UK)	35,000
186	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Dominica (UK)	32,000
187	Gilbert Islands (UK)	30,000
188	French Polynesia (France)	30,000
189	Gibraltar (UK)	29,000
190	Danish Virgin Islands (Denmark)	28,000
191	Fernando Po (Spain)	25,000
192	French Guiana (France)	24,000
193	Brunei (UK)	22,000
194	Spanish Morocco (mainly Ceuta and Melilla) (Spain)	22,000
195	Seychelles (UK)	22,000
196	Tonga (UK)	21,000
197	Bermuda (UK)	20,000
198	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	17,000
199	Monaco	19,000
200	Micronesia (Germany)	15,000
201	Witu (UK)	15,000
202	Marshall Islands (Germany)	15,000
203	Greenland (Denmark)	13,000
204	Guam (United States)	12,000
205	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Montserrat (UK)	12,000
206	Qatar (UK)	11,000
207	San Marino	11,000
208	Liechtenstein	10,000
209	Andorra	6,000
210	Cook Islands (UK)	6,000
211	American Samoa (United States)	6,000
212	Wallis and Futuna (France)	6,000
213	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	5,500
214	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] British Virgin Islands (UK)	5,000
215	Cayman Islands (UK)	5,000
216	Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	5,000
217	[[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Anguilla (UK)	4,500
218	Saint Helena (UK)	4,500
219	Palau (Germany)	4,000
220	Niue (UK)	4,000
221	Elobey, Annobón and Corisco (Spain)	3,000
222	Moresnet (Neutral territory)	3,000
223	Mariana Islands (Germany)	2,500
224	Ellice Islands (UK)	2,400
225	Falkland Islands (UK)	2,300
226	Nauru (Germany)	1,500
227	Christmas Island (UK)	900
228	Vatican City	700
229	Cocos Islands (UK)	650
230	Tokelau Islands (UK)	500
231	Pitcairn Islands (UK)	170
232	Goust	150
233	Ascension Island (UK)	c. 100-200?
234	Tristan da Cunha (UK)	95
235	Tavolara	60
236	Phoenix Islands (UK)	60

[edit] References

Originally this site incorporated statistics from the Nuttall Encyclopedia published in 1907. The list includes the populations of all countries, states and territories listed in the Encyclopedia with an estimated population. The populations listed here, rounded to the nearest 1,000, represent the best estimate of population by the editors of the Nuttall Encyclopedia.

The other main sources are:

http://www.populstat.info/

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page

http://www.zum.de/psm/imperialismus/kolonialatlas05/atlas002.php

[edit] See also

• List of countries by population in 2005
• List of countries by population

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