Largest Cities After 1CE-Pt. 5

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First published: Tuesday August 26th, 2025

The population of ten cities that reached the top 7 in the world after 1CE by population, according to Ollie Bye's "The Largest Cities Throughout History: Each Year."

Exact data from spreadsheet used as necessary

Rounded to tens of thousands for populations less than a million or hundreds of thousands if a city has more than a million population

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Year	Esfahan (Isfahan)	Edo/Tokyo	London	Dhaka	New York	Berlin	Vienna	Chicago	Buenos Aires	Moscow
1627	0.31
1631	0.32
1632	0.33
1633		0.32
1641		0.41
1647		0.47	0.38
1651		0.5	0.41
1653		0.51	0.42	0.39
1661		0.54	0.44	0.51
1671		0.57	0.41	0.66
1681		0.61	0.5	0.8
1691		0.65	0.54	0.85
1701		0.68	0.57	0.9
1711		0.69	0.61	0.84
1721		0.7	0.63	0.7
1731		0.69	0.64	0.56
1741		0.69	0.64	0.42
1744		0.69	0.64	0.38
1751		0.69	0.65
1761		0.69	0.69
1771		0.69	0.73
1781		0.68	0.78
1791		0.68	0.82
1801		0.68	0.86
1811		0.7	1
1821		0.72	1.2
1831		0.74	1.4
1841		0.76	1.8
1847		0.77	2.1		0.51
1851		0.78	2.2		0.63
1861		0.78	3		1.1
1863		0.78	3.2		1.1
1864			3.3		1.2	0.78
1866			3.4		1.2	0.82	0.8
1871			3.9		1.4	0.94	0.92
1879		0.89	4.5		1.8	1.3	1.1
1881		0.95	4.7		1.9	1.4	1.1
1887		1.1	5.2		2.4	1.8	1.3	1
1891		1.2	5.5		2.8	2.1	1.4	1.2
1901		1.6	6.2		4	2.7	1.7	1.7
1911		3	7.1		6.3	3.3	1.9	2.2
1918		4.1	7.4		7.4	3.6	1.9	2.8
1919		4.3	7.4		7.6	3.7		2.9	1.9
1921		4.6	7.5		8	3.8		3.1	2.1
1927		5.7	7.9		9.4	4		3.6	2.6
1931		6.7	8		10.1	4.1		3.9
1940		8.8	8.5		10.7	4		4.4
1941		9.1	8.5		10.9			4.4	4.1
1942		9.3	8.5		11.1			4.5	4.2
1943		9.6	8.5		11.2			4.5		4.3
1948		10.7	8.4		12			4.8		5
1949		11	8.3		12.1				4.9	5.2
1951		11.7	8.3		12.5				5.3	5.4
1955		13.7	8.2		13.2				5.9	5.7
1961		17.3	8.1		14.3				6.7
1967		21.4	7.7		15.6				7.8
1971		23.9			16.1				8.5
1981		28.9			15.6				10
1991		32.7			16.2				11.2
1992		32.9			16.4				11.4
2001		34.6			17.8
2010		36.8			18.3
2011		36.9
2019		37.4		20.2
2021		37.3		21.7

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