Rank | Country/Territory | Population c. 1900 estimate | Percentage of World Population |
— | World | 1,700,100,000[1] | 100% |
1 | British Empire - British Asia – 301,041,000
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India – 241,000,000 Bangladesh – 30,000,000 Pakistan – 23,000,000 Burma – 8,000,000 Ceylon – 3,912,000 Malaya – 900,000 Straits Settlements – 550,000 Sarawak – 500,000 British Hong Kong – 325,000 North Borneo – 300,000 Cyprus – 240,000 Bahrain – 70,000 Trucial Oman – 70,000 Maldives – 57000 Aden Protectorate – 45,000 Sheikhdom of Kuwait – 40,000 Brunei – 22,000 Qatar – 11,000 - British Africa – 44,587,195
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Egypt – 10,000,000[2][3] Northern Nigeria – 8,500,000 Southern Nigeria – 7,500,000 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan – 5,588,000 Cape Colony – 2,500,000 Uganda – 1,649,000 Gold Coast – 1,486,400 Kenya – 1,352,000 Sierra Leone (including protectorate) – 1,027,000 Colony of Natal – 925,100 Northern Rhodesia – 770,000 Nyasaland – 717,000 Southern Rhodesia – 692,000 Basutoland – 383,000 Mauritius– 375,000 Somaliland – 300,000 Zanzibar (UK and Oman) – 250,000 Gambia – 165,000 Bechuanaland – 90,000 Swaziland – 90,000 Seychelles – 22,000 Witu Sultanate – 15,000 Saint Helena – 4,500 Ascension Island – 100 Tristan da Cunha – 95 United Kingdom – 44,498,900 Canada – 5,301,000 Australia – 3,765,700 - British West Indies – 1,685,000
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Jamaica – 720,000 Trinidad and Tobago – 320,000 Barbados – 182,000 Grenada – 70,000 Bahamas – 55,000 Saint Lucia – 50,000 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – 49,000 British Honduras – 45,000 Saint Kitts and Nevis – 45,000 Antigua and Barbuda – 35,000 Dominica – 32,000 Bermuda – 20,000 Montserrat – 12,000 Turks and Caicos Islands – 5,500 British Virgin Islands – 5,000 Cayman Islands – 5,000 Anguilla – 4,500
New Zealand – 802,200 British Guiana – 300,000 Newfoundland – 230,000- Western Pacific Territories – 375,689
Malta – 195,000 Gibraltar – 29,000 Falkland Islands – 2,300
| ~400,800,000[citation needed] | 23.51% |
2 | Qing China | 400,000,000[citation needed] | 23.5% | |
3 | Russian Empire | 136,305,900[citation needed] | 8.0% |
4 | United States | 78,816,167[citation needed] | 4.6% |
5 | French Empire French Third Republic – 38,900,000 French Indochina – 15,164,500 French West Africa – 11,439,000 -
French Sudan – 2,672,000 Upper Volta – 2,222,000 Colony of Niger – 1,459,000 French Guinea – 1,459,000 Ivory Coast – 1,355,000 Senegal – 1,200,000 Colony of Dahomey and Dependencies – 570,000 Colony of Mauritania – 502,000 French North Africa – 5,575,000 Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies – 2,539,500 French Equatorial Africa – 1,825,000 French India – 280,000 French West Indies – 375,000 Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan – 185,000 New Caledonia – 54,000 French Somaliland – 50,000 New Hebrides – 50,000 French Polynesia – 30,000 French Guiana – 24,000 Wallis and Futuna – 6,000 Saint Pierre and Miquelon – 5,000
| 78,790,700[citation needed] | 4.6% |
6 | German Empire Germany – 56,367,178 Kamerun – 3,500,000 German East Africa – 3,500,000 Ruanda-Urundi – 2,700,000 Togoland – 920,000 German South West Africa – 210,000 German New Guinea – 188,000 Kiaochow – 60,000 German Solomon Islands – 50,000 German Samoa – 37,000 Caroline Islands – 36,000 Micronesia – 15,000 Marshall Islands – 15,000 Palau – 4,000 Neutral Moresnet – 3,000 Mariana Islands – 2,500 Nauru – 1,500
| 67,609,178[4] | 4.0% |
7 | Dutch Empire | 47,980,100[citation needed] | 2.8% |
8 | Austria-Hungary Hungary – 6,800,000 Austria – 6,000,000 Bohemia – 6,000,000 Galicia – 5,300,000 Moravia – 3,000,000 Slovakia – 2,700,000 Transylvania – 2,100,000 Bosnia – 1,600,000 Dalmatia – 1,300,000 Carniola – 1,200,000 Croatia-Slavonia – 1,000,000 Südtirol – 500,000
| 47,295,100 [citation needed] | 2.8% |
9 | Empire of Japan | 46,605,000[5] | 2.7% |
10 | Kingdom of Italy | 33,095,000[citation needed] | 1.9% |
11 | Ottoman Empire[a] Turkey – 14,000,000 Yemen – 2,500,000 Kosovo – 1,600,000 Aleppo – 1,500,000 Salonica – 1,300,000 Manastir – 1,000,000 Damascus – 1,000,000 Eastern Rumelia – 900,000 Baghdad – 800,000 Hiyaz – 600,000 Beirut – 530,000 Tripoli – 500,000 Scutari – 350,000 Cretan State – 310,000 Mosul – 300,000 Basora – 200,000 Zor – 100,000
| 31,706,300[citation needed] | 1.9% |
12 | Sokoto Caliphate | 10-20,000,000[6][7][b] | 0.6-1.1% |
13 | Spanish Empire | 18,834,000[citation needed] | 1.1% |
14 | Brazil | 17,984,000[citation needed] | 1.1% |
16 | Korean Empire | 17,082,000[8] | 1.0% |
17 | Belgian colonial empire | 15,426,500[citation needed] | 0.9% |
18 | Mexico | 13,607,000[citation needed] | 0.8% |
19 | Portuguese Empire Portugal – 5,450,000 Portuguese West Africa – 4,790,000 Portuguese East Africa – 2,239,000 Portuguese India – 475,000 Portuguese Timor – 300,000 Azores – 260,000 Guinea – 200,000 Madeira – 160,000 Cape Verde – 140,000 Macau – 80,000 São Tomé and Príncipe – 61,000
| 12,434,000[citation needed] | 0.7% |
20 | Ethiopian Empire | 12,180,600[9] | 0.7% |
21 | Qajar Iran | 9,860,000[citation needed] | 0.6% |
22 | Philippines | 7,409,000[citation needed] | 0.4% |
23 | Union between Sweden and Norway | 7,354,400[citation needed] | 0.4% |
24 | Morocco | 7,000,000[10] | 0.4% |
25 | Siam | 6,320,000[citation needed] | 0.4% |
26 | Romania | 6,000,000[citation needed] | 0.4% |
27 | Afghanistan | 4,550,000[citation needed] | 0.3% |
28 | Argentina | 4,542,000[citation needed] | 0.3% |
29 | Jabal Shammar[c] | ~4,218,000[citation needed] | ~0.2% |
30 | Colombia[d] | 4,157,000[citation needed] | 0.2% |
31 | Bulgaria | 3,744,300[citation needed] | 0.2% |
32 | Nepal[e] | 3,599,000[citation needed] | 0.2% |
33 | Switzerland | 3,315,400[citation needed] | 0.2% |
34 | Chile | 3,110,100[citation needed] | 0.18% |
35 | Peru | 3,000,000[citation needed] | 0.18% |
36 | Serbia | 2,579,800[f][citation needed] | 0.15% |
37 | Danish Empire | 2,569,000[citation needed] | 0.15% |
39 | Venezuela | 2,445,000[citation needed] | 0.14% |
40 | Bolivia | 1,766,000[citation needed] | 0.1% |
41 | South African Republic | 1,400,000[citation needed] | |
42 | Ecuador | 1,271,900[citation needed] | |
43 | Uruguay | 943,000[citation needed] | |
44 | Guatemala | 885,000[citation needed] | |
45 | El Salvador | 801,000[citation needed] | |
46 | Liberia | 641,000[citation needed] | |
47 | Paraguay | 635,600[citation needed] | |
48 | Dominican Republic | 600,000[citation needed] | |
49 | Honduras | 543,700[citation needed] | |
50 | Muscat and Oman | 500,000[citation needed] | |
51 | Nicaragua | 429,300[citation needed] | |
52 | Orange Free State | 400,000[citation needed] | |
53 | Costa Rica | 341,600[citation needed] | |
54 | Montenegro | 320,000[citation needed] | |
55 | Bhutan[g] | 280,000[citation needed] | |
56 | Luxembourg | 252,000[citation needed] | |
57 | Monaco | 19,000[citation needed] | |
58 | San Marino | 11,000[citation needed] | |
59 | Liechtenstein | 10,000[citation needed] | |
60 | Andorra | 6,000[citation needed] | |