List of countries by population in 1900

This is a list of countries by population in 1900. It is a list of countries in the world by population at the beginning of the year 1900.

Rank	Country/Territory	Population 1900 estimate
-	World	1,633,000,000
-	British Empire	367,000,000
1	Qing Dynasty	300,000,000
2	India (UK)	200,000,000
3	Russia	132,000,000
-	French Empire	81,500,000
4	United States	76,212,168
5	Germany	56,000,000
-	Dutch Empire	51,246,000
6	Dutch East Indies (Netherlands)	45,500,000
7	Japan	42,000,000
8	United Kingdom	38,000,000
9	France	38,000,000
10	Italy	33,000,000
11	Austria-Hungary	32,000,000
12	Ottoman Empire	30,860,000
13	Spain	20,750,000
14	Brazil	17,000,000
-	Portuguese Empire	12,434,000
15	Mexico	12,050,000
16	Korea	12,000,000
17	Burma (United Kingdom)	9,606,000
18	Northern Nigeria (United Kingdom)	8,500,000
19	Egypt (UK/Ottoman Empire)	8,000,000
20	Philippines (US)	8,000,000
21	Southern Nigeria (UK)	7,500,000
22	Siam	7,200,000
23	Persia	7,000,000
24	Romania	6,630,000
25	Belgium	6,136,000
26	Annam (France)	6,000,000
27	Tongking (France)	6,000,000
28	Argentina	5,800,000
29	Portugal	5,758,000
30	Netherlands	5,616,000
31	Canada (UK)	5,500,000
32	Sweden	5,140,000
33	Afghanistan	5,000,000
34	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (UK and Egypt)	4,800,000
35	Nepal	4,789,000
36	Colombia	4,604,000
37	Chile	4,409,000
	Tibet	4,200,000
38	Arabia (mainly includes (Hejaz, Nejd, Hadramaut and Yemen)	4,218,000
39	Morocco	4,162,000
40	Abyssinia	4,000,000
41	Algeria (France)	4,000,000
42	Australia (UK)	4,000,000
43	Ceylon (UK)	3,700,000
44	Peru	3,700,000
45	Switzerland	3,525,300
46	Cameroon (Germany)	3,500,000
47	German East Africa (Germany)	3,500,000
48	Cochin-China (France)	3,200,000
49	Bulgaria (Ottoman Empire)	3,154,000
50	Chile	2,867,000
51	Greece	2,800,000
52	Sudan (France)	2,800,000
53	Gold Coast (UK)	2,800,000
54	Venezuela	2,741,000
55	Madagascar (France)	2,706,700
56	Ruanda-Urundi (Germany)	2,700,000
57	Serbia	2,650,000
58	Portuguese East Africa (Portugal)	2,600,000
59	Cape Colony (UK)	2,500,000
60	Portuguese West Africa (Portugal)	2,400,000
61	Upper Volta (France)	2,375,000
62	Norway (Union with Sweden)	2,240,000
63	Denmark	2,182,000
64	Tunis (France)	1,890,000
65	Uganda (UK)	1,800,000
66	Kenya (UK)	1,700,000
67	French Guinea (France)	1,600,000
68	Niger (France)	1,570,000
69	Cambodia (France)	1,500,000
70	Cuba (US)	1,500,000
71	Bolivia	1,500,000
72	South African Republic	1,400,000
73	Ecuador	1,271,000
74	Bukhara (Russia)	1,250,000
75	Senegal (France)	1,230,000
76	Natal (UK)	1,200,000
77	El Salvador	1,116,300
78	Porto Rico (United States)	1,100,000
79	Guatemala	1,046,000
80	Uruguay	1,026,000
81	Sierra Leone (UK) (including protectorate)	1,000,000
82	New Zealand (UK)	967,000
83	Ivory Coast (France)	950,000
84	Togoland (Germany)	920,000
85	Malaya (UK)	900,000
86	Nyasaland (UK)	850,000
87	Jamaica (UK)	820,000
88	Chad (France)	810,000
89	Northern Rhodesia (UK)	770,000
90	Southern Rhodesia (UK)	734,000
91	Paraguay	715,000
92	Liberia	664,000
93	Oubangui-Chari (France)	630,000
94	Dominican Republic	610,000
95	Dahomey (France)	570,000
96	Straits Settlements (UK)	550,000
97	Laos (France)	550,000
98	Mauretania (France)	540,000
99	Nicaragua	515,000
100	Honduras	505,000
101	Muscat and Oman	500,000
102	Sarawak	500,000
103	Portuguese India (Portugal)	475,000
104	Italian Somaliland (Italy)	400,000
105	Khiva (Russia)	400,000
106	Orange Free State	400,000
107	Territory of Papua (UK, de facto Australia)	400,000
108	Basutoland (UK)	383,000
109	Mauritius (UK)	375,000
110	Canary Islands (Spain)	360,000
111	Costa Rica	341,600
112	Hong Kong (UK)	325,000
113	Montenegro	320,000
114	Trinidad and Tobago (UK)	320,000
115	Crete (Ottoman Empire)	310,000
116	North Borneo (UK)	300,000
117	British Guiana (UK)	300,000
118	British Somaliland (UK)	300,000
119	Portuguese Timor (Portugal)	300,000
120	Bhutan	280,000
121	French India (France)	280,000
122	Middle Congo (also called French Congo) (France)	280,000
123	Azores (Portugal)	260,000
124	Luxembourg	252,000
125	Zanzibar (UK and Oman)	250,000
126	Cyprus (UK)	240,000
127	Newfoundland (UK)	230,000
128	Gabon (France)	240,000
129	Eritrea (Italy)	220,000
130	German South West Africa (Germany)	210,000
131	Portuguese Guinea (Portugal)	200,000
132	Malta (UK)	195,000
133	Guadeloupe (France)	190,000
134	German New Guinea (Germany)	188,000
135	Kwang-Chou-Wan (France)	185,000
136	Martinique (France)	185,000
137	Barbados (UK)	182,000
138	Réunion (France)	178,000
139	Gambia (UK)	165,000
140	Madeira (Portugal)	160,000
141	Hawaii (United States)	154,000
142	Spanish Guinea (or Rio Muni) (Spain)	150,000
143	Cape Verde (Portugal)	140,000
144	British Solomon Islands (UK)	135,000
145	Fiji (UK)	125,000
146	Comoros (France)	112,000
147	Bechuanaland (UK)	90,000
148	Swaziland (UK)	90,000
149	Dutch Guiana (Netherlands)	86,000
150	Iceland (Denmark)	82,000
151	Macau (Portugal)	80,000
152	Bahrain (UK)	70,000
153	Grenada (UK)	70,000
154	Trucial Oman (UK)	70,000
155	São Tomé and Príncipe (Portugal)	61,000
156	Kiaochow (Germany)	60,000
157	Sikkim (British India)	60,000
158	Isle of Man (UK)	57,000
159	Maldives (UK)	56,000
160	Bahamas (UK)	55,000
161	Jersey (UK)	54,000
162	New Caledonia (France)	54,000
163	French Somaliland (France)	50,000
164	German Solomon Islands (Germany)	50,000
165	and New Hebrides (shared between UK and France)	50,000
166	Saint Lucia (UK)	50,000
167	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (UK)	49,000
168	Aden Protectorate (UK)	45,000
169	Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)	44,000
170	British Honduras (UK)	45,000
171	Saint Kitts (with Nevis) (UK)	45,000
172	Guernsey (UK)	42,000
173	Kuwait (UK)	40,000
174	Rio de Oro (Spain)	40,000
175	German Samoa	37,000
176	Caroline Islands (Germany)	36,000
177	Antigua (with Barbuda and Redonda) (UK)	35,000
178	Dominica (UK)	32,000
179	Gilbert Islands (UK)	30,000
180	French Polynesia (France)	30,000
181	Gibraltar (UK)	29,000
182	Danish Virgin Islands (Denmark)	28,000
183	Fernando Po (Spain)	25,000
184	French Guiana (France)	24,000
185	Brunei (UK)	22,000
186	Spanish Morocco (mainly Ceuta and Melilla) (Spain)	22,000
187	Seychelles (UK)	22,000
188	Tonga (UK- Protectorate but not a colony)	21,000
189	Bermuda (UK)	20,000
190	Monaco	19,000
191	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	17,000
192	Micronesia (Germany)	15,000
193	Witu (UK)	15,000
194	Marshall Islands (Germany)	15,000
195	Greenland (Denmark)	13,000
196	Guam (United States)	12,000
197	Montserrat (UK)	12,000
198	Qatar (UK)	11,000
199	San Marino	11,000
200	Liechtenstein	10,000
201	Andorra	6,000
202	Cook Islands (UK)	6,000
203	American Samoa (United States)	6,000
204	Wallis and Futuna (France)	6,000
205	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	5,500
206	British Virgin Islands (UK)	5,000
207	Cayman Islands (UK)	5,000
208	Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	5,000
209	Anguilla (UK)	4,500
210	Saint Helena (UK)	4,500
211	Palau (Germany)	4,000
212	Niue (UK)	4,000
213	Elobey, Annobón and Corisco (Spain)	3,000
214	Moresnet (Neutral territory)	3,000
215	Mariana Islands (Germany)	2,500
216	Ellice Islands (UK)	2,400
217	Falkland Islands (UK)	2,300
218	Nauru (Germany)	1,500
219	Christmas Island (UK)	900
220	Cocos Islands (UK)	650
221	Tokelau Islands (UK)	500
222	Pitcairn Islands (UK)	170
223	Goust (France)	150
224	Ascension Island (UK)	100
225	Tristan da Cunha (UK)	95
226	Phoenix Islands (UK)	60

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See also

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

References

The other main sources are:

• http://www.populstat.info/
• http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page