The first 15 are easy. The current big and populated countries, and the ones you know that used to have empires. Only for the last couple you have to think a bit harder, because there are more contenders
I think 19/19 really has more to do with how few answers there really are over the span of 2,000 years than the time allotted. We homo sapiens seem to cluster in the same areas, so the answers have not really changed that much except for the addition of New World countries like the United States and Brazil. I mean think about it: there are only 19 correct answers for a possible 171 slots. That's incredible.
It would be nice if in the answer stat is shown for each country, on which, or atleast on how many of the lists they have appeared. It is nice if the answers from a quiz paint a picture. And this one contains some interesting facts (it is just not coming to life as much as it could, some sort of graph would be ideal, but this is not the place for that :) )
For instance Japan, India, and China are the only three that managed to stay in all the top 10s. France is close, only missing out on the last one. (surpassed by Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria)
A rather crude (and perhaps incorrect) conclusion could be. Some of these countries aleady decided to make sure their offspring populated the lands early on. And other started to do that now. Plus Industries have changed, no more "one of the first and only" of a lot of things
From 500 too 2000 china and india gained around 1000 million people !! The only other two that stayed on the list are bangladesh and japan and they "only" gained around 100 million.
And the changes after 1900 are crazy! Up until then all the countries seem to grow at a reasonably steady pace. Graphs will have gone like __/
Maybe, but I only think that is a small portions. The strain on peoples life has decreased drastically. No more 18 hour work days busting your ass off, but 5 days 8 hours sitting on your ass basicly. They had to literally work for their food. People nowadays work so at home they can sit on their ass with all the conveniences around them, everything electronic and automatic. It is a wonder people still walk from the front door to their couch..
Sorry for being cynical. But well.. I dunno society is weird, I am weird, whatcha gonna do..
Could it be that Poland was considerably larger back then? I'm not familiar with Polish history but perhaps they had lands in modern day Germany/Eastern Europe, but the actual land area of modern day Poland didn't have the entirety of that large population.
Yeah, eastern lands weren't very densely populated but it was massive so they've added quite a lot. You can still see this today, there are 22M-23M people in Lithuania, Western Ukraine and Belarus while there is 38M in Poland despite being smaller by about 80,000km²
That's assuming nobody dies in those 100 years. I'm not a historian or demographer, but that doesn't strike me as a reasonable assumption. The number of babies had to be way higher unless there was also a huge influx of immigrants (there wasn't).
It's quite easy to understand why France was such a powerhouse in Europe until the XIXth century when you see just how populous its soil enabled it to be.
Don't get me wrong, it's still powerful, but it used to be almost unstoppable.
I'm not well-versed in the colonial history of Britain in India, but seeing that the population of India dropped between 1800-1900 is a bit of a red flag. Complicated, I'm sure.
I'm not completely sure but it might have something to do with the famines. The most famous one is the Bengal famine in the 1940s, but there were quite a few in the 19th century as well. The 1857 rebellion also killed about 1 million people. I'm not sure these events alone were responsible for the population drop, but it's likely that they (and by extension British colonial policies) at least partially contributed to it.
i'm not 100% sure but i would guess it had something to do with the Huang Chao rebellion and the disconnected Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period; not a huge Chinese history buff though so i could be incorrect
A rather crude (and perhaps incorrect) conclusion could be. Some of these countries aleady decided to make sure their offspring populated the lands early on. And other started to do that now. Plus Industries have changed, no more "one of the first and only" of a lot of things
I was thinking, man i still miss THREE in the
2000 one ! What could they be. And why am i missing more in the 2000 one than in any of the others...
And the changes after 1900 are crazy! Up until then all the countries seem to grow at a reasonably steady pace. Graphs will have gone like __/
Sorry for being cynical. But well.. I dunno society is weird, I am weird, whatcha gonna do..
That's 8.4 million chinese babies born each year.
Don't get me wrong, it's still powerful, but it used to be almost unstoppable.