Largest Cities After 1CE-Pt.4

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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

Gauda is also known as Gaur, Gour, Lakhnauti, Lakshmanavati, and Jannatabad

From 1800-1847, the video only shows top 6 cities

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Year	Dadu/Beiping/Beijing	Delhi/New Delhi	Vijayanagara	Tabriz	Granada	Gauda	Naples	Lahore	Agra	Osaka
1272	0.17
1281	0.3
1291	0.35
1301	0.4
1311	0.4
1321	0.4
1331	0.3	0.11
1341	0.3	0.12
1351	0.3	0.12
1353	0.15	0.12	0.13
1361	0.15	0.12	0.21
1368	0.15	0.12	0.28	0.12
1370	0.15	0.12	0.3	0.12
1371	0.15		0.31	0.13
1381	0.15		0.36	0.14
1384	0.15		0.36	0.15
1391	0.15		0.38
1401	0.15		0.4	0.15
1411	0.15		0.41	0.16
1421	0.16		0.42	0.17
1431	0.31		0.43	0.19
1441	0.46		0.44	0.2	0.15
1451	0.6		0.45	0.22	0.16
1461	0.61		0.47	0.22	0.18
1471	0.63		0.48	0.23	0.19
1478	0.64		0.49	0.23	0.2	0.17
1481	0.64		0.49	0.23	0.2	0.18
1491	0.65		0.49	0.24	0.2	0.19
1492	0.66		0.49	0.24	0.2	0.19
1501	0.67		0.5	0.24		0.2
1511	0.67		0.5	0.22		0.2
1521	0.68		0.5	0.2		0.2
1525	0.68		0.5	0.2		0.2
1531	0.68		0.5			0.2
1540	0.68		0.5			0.2
1541	0.68		0.5				0.19
1551	0.69		0.5				0.2
1561	0.69		0.5				0.21
1563	0.69		0.5				0.21
1564	0.69		0.5					0.21
1571	0.7		0.45					0.26
1581	0.7		0.38					0.33
1583	0.7		0.36					0.35	0.25
1591	0.7		0.31					0.4	0.31
1600	0.7		0.24					0.43	0.37
1601	0.7							0.43	0.38
1611	0.7							0.46	0.45
1616	0.7							0.48	0.46	0.27
1621	0.7							0.49	0.47	0.3
1626	0.7							0.5	0.49	0.3
1631	0.7							0.48	0.5
1632	0.7							0.47	0.5
1641	0.7							0.41	0.5
1646	0.45							0.38	0.5
1651	0.47								0.5
1661	0.51								0.44
1664	0.52								0.39
1671	0.54
1675	0.56	0.37
1681	0.58	0.4
1691	0.61	0.4
1701	0.65	0.4
1709	0.69	0.38
1710	0.7									0.38
1711	0.7									0.38
1721	0.75									0.39
1731	0.8									0.4
1741	0.85									0.4
1751	0.9									0.41
1761	0.94									0.4
1771	0.98									0.4
1781	1									0.39
1785	1									0.39
1786	1						0.39
1791	1						0.41
1801	1.1
1811	1.1
1821	1.2
1831	1.4
1841	1.5
1851	1.6
1861	1.3
1871	1
1881	0.94
1886	0.98
1887
1928										2.7
1931										3.3
1941										5.2
1951										7.3
1961										11
1971										15.3
1981										17.1
1991										18.5
1995		12.1								18.9
2001		16.4								18.6
2011		22.7								19.3
2017		27.6								19.2
2018	19.6	28.5
2019		29.3
2020	20.4	30.2
2021	20.8	31.1

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