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Population figures thread: The purpose of this thread is for people to post data about how the populations of countries has changed over time, helping people who are writing timelines. I will start by posting some population figures for 1820, taken from this contemporary atlas. The spellings are from the original and may differ from modern ones. Often the figures are based on census data some years old, so it may be better to regard these as more accurate for 1810 or so.
United Kingdom
Total population: 17,118,936
England: 9,499,400
Wales: 607,380
Scotland: 1,804,864
Ireland: 5,207,292
Breakdown by county etc
England
Middlesex: 950,040
Cheshire: 227,031
Northumberland: 172,161
Cumberland: 133,744
Durham: 179,805
Westmorland: 45,936
Yorkshire: 978,553
Lancashire: 828,309
Derbyshire: 185,487
Nottinghamshire: 162,900
Lincolnshire: 222,551
Rutland: 16,380
Leicestershire: 150,419
Northamptonshire: 141,353
Warwickshire: 218,893
Shropshire: 194,700
Staffordshire: 296,528
Worcestershire: 161,001
Herefordshire: 94,073
Monmouthshire: 51,274
Gloucestershire: 278,536
Oxfordshire: 119,204
Berkshire: 118,277
Norfolk: 291,982
Suffolk: 333,899
Cambridgeshire: 101,109
Huntingdonshire: 42,208
Bedfordshire: 70,213
Buckinghamshire: 117,650
Essex: 252,473
Hertfordshire: 111,654
Kent: 370,885
Surrey: 323,851
Sussex: 189,245
Hampshire: 245,347
Wiltshire: 193,823
Dorsetshire: 124,693
Somersetshire: 303,181
Devonshire: 383,308
Cornwall: 216,667
Wales
Flintshire: 47,518
Denbighshire: 64,240
Montgomeryshire: 50,606
Anglesea: 37,092
Caernarvonshire: 49,013
Merionethshire: 30,924
Radnorshire: 21,799
Brecknockshire: 37,750
Glamorganshire: 81,268
Cardiganshire: 50,332
Caermarthenshire: 77,217
Pembrokeshire: 60,615
Scotland
Caithness: 23,419
Sutherland: 23,629
Ross and Cromarty: 60,853
Inverness: 78,415
Nairn: 8,251
Murray or Elgin: 23,108
Banff: 34,100
Aberdeen: 136,903
Kincardine or Mearns: 27,439
Angus or Forfar: 107,264
Perth: 135,093
Fife: 104,272
Kinross: 7,245
Clackmannan: 12,010
Stirling: 58,174
Dumbarton: 24,189
Argyle: 85,585
Renfrew: 92,596
Linlithgow: 19,451
Edinburgh: 148,444
Haddington: 31,164
Merse: 30,779
Air: 103,954
Lanerk: 191,752
Peebles: 9,935
Selkirk: 5,809
Roxburgh: 37,230
Dumfries: 62,960
Kircudbright: 32,684
Wigtown: 26,891
Bute: 12,038
Ireland
Leinster: 1,450,212
Munster: 1,410,696
Ulster: 1,739,532
Connaught: 606,852
France
Total population: 29,000,000 (est.)
Reliable figures for France did not exist in 1820 due to the upheavals of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Spain
Total population: 10,730,000
Breakdown by province:
New Castille: 1,260,000
Andalusia: 1,370,000
Old Castille: 1,000,000
Arragon: 600,00
Estremadura: 450,000
Gallicia: 1,145,000
Leon: 1,300,000
Catalonia: 900,000
Granada: 650,000
Valencia: 800,000
Biscay: 300,000
Asturias: 230,000
Murcia: 435,000
Navarre: 200,000
Majorca: 140,000
Minorca: 28,000
Ivica: 12,000
Portugal
Total population: 2,550,000 not including Azores (100,000)
Breakdown by province
Entre Douro e Minho: 900,000
Tras los Montes: 140,000
Beira: 520,000
Estremadura: 600,000
Alentejo: 300,000
Algarve: 90,000
Germany
Total population of the German Confederation and all lands tied by royalty including the non-German-speaking possessions of Prussia and Austria: 44,700,000
Breakdown by kingdom
Austrian Empire: 25,000,000
Kingdom of Prussia: 6,200,000
Other states (Saxony, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, Hanover, Nassau, Hesse, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lower Rhine, Cleves and Berg, Munster, Oldenburgh, Holstein, Mecklenburgh, Free Cities and other states): 13,500,000
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Total population: est. 5,075,224
Breakdown (based on old 1809 figures, hence French department divisions in Belgium)
Holland: 799,978
Utrecht: 108,820
Zealand: 74,050
Brabant: 207,708
Guelders: 323,282
Overyssel: 174,732
Friesland: 96,846
Groningen: 103,000
(Total former United Provinces: 1,868,416)
Lys: 465,121
Scheldt or Escaut: 629,964
Jemmappe: 443,059
Dyle: 431,959
Deux Nethes: 249,376
Valdère: 225,549
Sambre and Meuse: 190,655
Meuse Inferieure: 267,249
Ourthe: 313,876
Total former Austrian Netherlands: 3,206,808
Italy
Total population: 20,227,204
Breakdown by kingdom
Lombardy and Venice (Austrian): 6,070,927
Kingdom of Naples and Sicily: 6,619,502
States of the Church: 2,000,000
Modena: 470,000
Parma and Placentia: 300,000
Lucca: 172,000
Tuscany: 1,100,000
Sardinia: 3,494,775
Russian Empire
Total population: 45,248,000
Denmark
Total population: 1,448,438
Breakdown by province
Diocese of Zealand: 345,740
Diocese of Funen: 151,512
Jutland—Aarhuys: 125,282
Jutland—Ripen: 83,186
Jutland—Aalborg: 71,242
Wiborg—53,488
Duchy of Sleswick: 251,230
Duchy of Holstein: 311,758
Iceland: 50,000
The Faro Isles: 5,000
Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
Total population: 3,887,417
Sweden: 3,187,417
Norway and Lapland: 700,000
Ottoman Empire
Total population: 23,000,000
Turkey in Europe: 10,000,000
Turkey in Asia: 10,500,000
Egypt: 3,250,000
Persia
Total population: 15,000,000
India
Within the Ganges (former Mughal Empire): 110,000,000
Beyond the Ganges (Aracan, Burmah, Pegu, Tonkin, Siam, Camboja, Cochinchina, Malaya, &c): 25,000,000
Unrelated figures
Longtime British possessions (Bengal, Bahar, Orissa, Benares): 11,000,000
Mysore: 20,000,000
Gentoo (Hindu) population: 100,000,000
Mahometan (Muslim) population: 10,000,000
China
Total population: c. 300,000,000
Breakdown by province:
Peetchelee: 38,000,000
Shensi: 30,000,000
Shansi: 27,000,000
Shantung: 24,000,000
Honan: 25,000,000
Kiangnan: 32,000,000
Setchuen: 27,000,000
Hooquang: 27,000,000
Tchekiang: 21,000,000
Kiangsee: 19,000,000
Yunnan: 8,000,000
Koetcheu: 9,000,000
Quangsi: 10,000,000
Quangtung: 21,000,000
Fokien: 15,000,000
Independent Tartary (Bucharia, Kharasm., etc)
Total population: 8,000,000
British North America
Canada: 250,000
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: 100,000
Spanish America
Total population: 12,400,000
New Spain: 6,500,000 (3,000,000 of which are natives)
New Granada: 1,800,000
Caraccas: 900,000
Peru: 1,300,000
Buenos Ayres: 1,100,000
Chili: 800,000
Portuguese Brazil
Total population: 4,000,000
United States of America
Total population: 5,623,465 whites, 1,361,357 blacks (not including territories)
Breakdown by state
Virginia: 557,534 whites, 417,088 blacks
New York: 918,870 whites, 40,350 blacks
Massachussetts: 693,039 whites, 7,706 blacks
Delaware: 55,361 whites, 7,313 blacks
Connecticut: 255,179 whites, 6,763 blacks
Maryland: 235,117 whites, 145,429 blacks
Rhode Island: 73,214 whites, 3,717 blacks
New Hampshire: 213,390 whites, 970 blacks
North Carolina: 376,310 whites, 179,190 blacks
South Carolina: 214,196 whites, 200,919 blacks
New Jersey: 226,868 whites, 18,694 blacks
Pennsylvania: 786,803 whites, 23,288 blacks
Georgia: 145,414 whites, 107,019 blacks
Vermont: 217,163 whites, 750 blacks
Kentucky: 324,237 whites, 82,274 blacks
Tennessee: 215,875 whites, 45,852 blacks
Louisiana: 34,311 whites, 42,255 blacks
Indiana: 23,890 whites, 630 blacks
Mississippi: 24,703 whites, 21,276 blacks
Illinois: 11,555 whites, 627 blacks
Alabama: 20,436 whites, 9,247 blacks
United Kingdom
Total population: 17,118,936
England: 9,499,400
Wales: 607,380
Scotland: 1,804,864
Ireland: 5,207,292
Breakdown by county etc
England
Middlesex: 950,040
Cheshire: 227,031
Northumberland: 172,161
Cumberland: 133,744
Durham: 179,805
Westmorland: 45,936
Yorkshire: 978,553
Lancashire: 828,309
Derbyshire: 185,487
Nottinghamshire: 162,900
Lincolnshire: 222,551
Rutland: 16,380
Leicestershire: 150,419
Northamptonshire: 141,353
Warwickshire: 218,893
Shropshire: 194,700
Staffordshire: 296,528
Worcestershire: 161,001
Herefordshire: 94,073
Monmouthshire: 51,274
Gloucestershire: 278,536
Oxfordshire: 119,204
Berkshire: 118,277
Norfolk: 291,982
Suffolk: 333,899
Cambridgeshire: 101,109
Huntingdonshire: 42,208
Bedfordshire: 70,213
Buckinghamshire: 117,650
Essex: 252,473
Hertfordshire: 111,654
Kent: 370,885
Surrey: 323,851
Sussex: 189,245
Hampshire: 245,347
Wiltshire: 193,823
Dorsetshire: 124,693
Somersetshire: 303,181
Devonshire: 383,308
Cornwall: 216,667
Wales
Flintshire: 47,518
Denbighshire: 64,240
Montgomeryshire: 50,606
Anglesea: 37,092
Caernarvonshire: 49,013
Merionethshire: 30,924
Radnorshire: 21,799
Brecknockshire: 37,750
Glamorganshire: 81,268
Cardiganshire: 50,332
Caermarthenshire: 77,217
Pembrokeshire: 60,615
Scotland
Caithness: 23,419
Sutherland: 23,629
Ross and Cromarty: 60,853
Inverness: 78,415
Nairn: 8,251
Murray or Elgin: 23,108
Banff: 34,100
Aberdeen: 136,903
Kincardine or Mearns: 27,439
Angus or Forfar: 107,264
Perth: 135,093
Fife: 104,272
Kinross: 7,245
Clackmannan: 12,010
Stirling: 58,174
Dumbarton: 24,189
Argyle: 85,585
Renfrew: 92,596
Linlithgow: 19,451
Edinburgh: 148,444
Haddington: 31,164
Merse: 30,779
Air: 103,954
Lanerk: 191,752
Peebles: 9,935
Selkirk: 5,809
Roxburgh: 37,230
Dumfries: 62,960
Kircudbright: 32,684
Wigtown: 26,891
Bute: 12,038
Ireland
Leinster: 1,450,212
Munster: 1,410,696
Ulster: 1,739,532
Connaught: 606,852
France
Total population: 29,000,000 (est.)
Reliable figures for France did not exist in 1820 due to the upheavals of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Spain
Total population: 10,730,000
Breakdown by province:
New Castille: 1,260,000
Andalusia: 1,370,000
Old Castille: 1,000,000
Arragon: 600,00
Estremadura: 450,000
Gallicia: 1,145,000
Leon: 1,300,000
Catalonia: 900,000
Granada: 650,000
Valencia: 800,000
Biscay: 300,000
Asturias: 230,000
Murcia: 435,000
Navarre: 200,000
Majorca: 140,000
Minorca: 28,000
Ivica: 12,000
Portugal
Total population: 2,550,000 not including Azores (100,000)
Breakdown by province
Entre Douro e Minho: 900,000
Tras los Montes: 140,000
Beira: 520,000
Estremadura: 600,000
Alentejo: 300,000
Algarve: 90,000
Germany
Total population of the German Confederation and all lands tied by royalty including the non-German-speaking possessions of Prussia and Austria: 44,700,000
Breakdown by kingdom
Austrian Empire: 25,000,000
Kingdom of Prussia: 6,200,000
Other states (Saxony, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, Hanover, Nassau, Hesse, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lower Rhine, Cleves and Berg, Munster, Oldenburgh, Holstein, Mecklenburgh, Free Cities and other states): 13,500,000
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Total population: est. 5,075,224
Breakdown (based on old 1809 figures, hence French department divisions in Belgium)
Holland: 799,978
Utrecht: 108,820
Zealand: 74,050
Brabant: 207,708
Guelders: 323,282
Overyssel: 174,732
Friesland: 96,846
Groningen: 103,000
(Total former United Provinces: 1,868,416)
Lys: 465,121
Scheldt or Escaut: 629,964
Jemmappe: 443,059
Dyle: 431,959
Deux Nethes: 249,376
Valdère: 225,549
Sambre and Meuse: 190,655
Meuse Inferieure: 267,249
Ourthe: 313,876
Total former Austrian Netherlands: 3,206,808
Italy
Total population: 20,227,204
Breakdown by kingdom
Lombardy and Venice (Austrian): 6,070,927
Kingdom of Naples and Sicily: 6,619,502
States of the Church: 2,000,000
Modena: 470,000
Parma and Placentia: 300,000
Lucca: 172,000
Tuscany: 1,100,000
Sardinia: 3,494,775
Russian Empire
Total population: 45,248,000
Denmark
Total population: 1,448,438
Breakdown by province
Diocese of Zealand: 345,740
Diocese of Funen: 151,512
Jutland—Aarhuys: 125,282
Jutland—Ripen: 83,186
Jutland—Aalborg: 71,242
Wiborg—53,488
Duchy of Sleswick: 251,230
Duchy of Holstein: 311,758
Iceland: 50,000
The Faro Isles: 5,000
Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
Total population: 3,887,417
Sweden: 3,187,417
Norway and Lapland: 700,000
Ottoman Empire
Total population: 23,000,000
Turkey in Europe: 10,000,000
Turkey in Asia: 10,500,000
Egypt: 3,250,000
Persia
Total population: 15,000,000
India
Within the Ganges (former Mughal Empire): 110,000,000
Beyond the Ganges (Aracan, Burmah, Pegu, Tonkin, Siam, Camboja, Cochinchina, Malaya, &c): 25,000,000
Unrelated figures
Longtime British possessions (Bengal, Bahar, Orissa, Benares): 11,000,000
Mysore: 20,000,000
Gentoo (Hindu) population: 100,000,000
Mahometan (Muslim) population: 10,000,000
China
Total population: c. 300,000,000
Breakdown by province:
Peetchelee: 38,000,000
Shensi: 30,000,000
Shansi: 27,000,000
Shantung: 24,000,000
Honan: 25,000,000
Kiangnan: 32,000,000
Setchuen: 27,000,000
Hooquang: 27,000,000
Tchekiang: 21,000,000
Kiangsee: 19,000,000
Yunnan: 8,000,000
Koetcheu: 9,000,000
Quangsi: 10,000,000
Quangtung: 21,000,000
Fokien: 15,000,000
Independent Tartary (Bucharia, Kharasm., etc)
Total population: 8,000,000
British North America
Canada: 250,000
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: 100,000
Spanish America
Total population: 12,400,000
New Spain: 6,500,000 (3,000,000 of which are natives)
New Granada: 1,800,000
Caraccas: 900,000
Peru: 1,300,000
Buenos Ayres: 1,100,000
Chili: 800,000
Portuguese Brazil
Total population: 4,000,000
United States of America
Total population: 5,623,465 whites, 1,361,357 blacks (not including territories)
Breakdown by state
Virginia: 557,534 whites, 417,088 blacks
New York: 918,870 whites, 40,350 blacks
Massachussetts: 693,039 whites, 7,706 blacks
Delaware: 55,361 whites, 7,313 blacks
Connecticut: 255,179 whites, 6,763 blacks
Maryland: 235,117 whites, 145,429 blacks
Rhode Island: 73,214 whites, 3,717 blacks
New Hampshire: 213,390 whites, 970 blacks
North Carolina: 376,310 whites, 179,190 blacks
South Carolina: 214,196 whites, 200,919 blacks
New Jersey: 226,868 whites, 18,694 blacks
Pennsylvania: 786,803 whites, 23,288 blacks
Georgia: 145,414 whites, 107,019 blacks
Vermont: 217,163 whites, 750 blacks
Kentucky: 324,237 whites, 82,274 blacks
Tennessee: 215,875 whites, 45,852 blacks
Louisiana: 34,311 whites, 42,255 blacks
Indiana: 23,890 whites, 630 blacks
Mississippi: 24,703 whites, 21,276 blacks
Illinois: 11,555 whites, 627 blacks
Alabama: 20,436 whites, 9,247 blacks