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Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in that year. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1 , pages 12 to 14, which cover population figures from the year 1500 divided ...
Estimating population sizes before censuses were conducted is a difficult task. [1] ... Florence: Italy 13,000 20,000 30,000 ... 1500 1550 1575 Aachen: 15,000 [200]
Graph of world population over the past 12,000 years . As a general rule, the confidence of estimates on historical world population decreases for the more distant past. Robust population data exist only for the last two or three centuries. Until the late 18th century, few governments had ever performed an accurate census.
City 1 – 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 Agrigento: 50,000 [163]Athens: 30,000 – 90,000 110,000 25,000
This compares with the Italian average of 18.06 percent (minors) and 19.94 percent (pensioners). The average age of Florence resident is 49 compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Florence grew by 3.22 percent, while Italy as a whole grew by 3.56 percent. [49]
Italy is also home to the greatest number of cardinals in the world, [112] and is the country with the greatest number of Roman Catholic churches per capita. [ 113 ] The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence , which has the biggest brick dome in the world, [ 114 ] [ 115 ] and is considered a masterpiece of Italian architecture.
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