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Historical Population Data for Urban Europe

Description

All cities that had a population of at least 10,000 at some point between 1500-1800 are included.

Usage

europop

Format

A data frame with 2653 rows and 4 columns:

city

Character. City name (in native language.)

region

Character. Region that city belongs to. One of the following:

  • Scandinavia

  • England and Wales

  • Scotland

  • Ireland

  • The Netherlands

  • Belgium

  • Germany

  • France

  • Switzerland

  • Northern Italy

  • Central Italy

  • Southern Italy

  • Spain

  • Portugal

  • Austria and Czechoslovakia

  • Poland

year

Integer.

population

Integer. Population in the thousands. 0 represents a population under 1,000 (such cities are presented, in De Vries' words, "for information only"). NA is used when the population value is unknown.

Note

This table can be joined to the city_coords table by the city column.

Source

Jan De Vries, European Urbanization, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), Appendix 2. (De Vries' sources for these numbers are cataloged in Appendix 2.)

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