The population of the Ming Dynasty has not changed much in the past 300 years.

The change is still quite big. There were many natural disasters and man-made disasters in Chongzhen period. Please refer to the following table:

Household registration flow table in Ming dynasty

age

Number of families

Number of mouths

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Fourteen years of Hongwu in Ming Taizu (138 1 year)

10,654,362 households

59873305 people [57]

Ming Taizu Hongwu twenty-six years (1393).

10,652,870 households

605458 12 people

This is the survey data except for most parts of North China. Today, scholars estimate that the actual population has reached 65 million.

The first year of Yongle (1403)

1 1, 415,829 households

66,598,337 people

Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty (1404)

9,685,020 households

50,950,470 people

Sixteen years of Chenghua in Ming Xianzong (1479)

The estimated actual number is 765,438+0,850,000.

Twenty-four years of Ming Xianzong Chenghua (1488).

It is estimated that the actual number is 75 million.

Four years of Hongzhi in Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty (149 1 year)

9 1 13446 households

5328 1, 158 people

Fifteen years of Hongzhi in Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty (1502)

10,409,788 households

50,908,672 people [58]

Seventeen years of Hongzhi in Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty (1504)

10,508,935 households

60 105835 people

Ming Shenzong Wanli Six Years (1578)

10,621436 households

60692856 people

The first year of Taichang in Guangzong of Ming Dynasty (1620)

9,835,426 households

5 1, 655,459 people [59]

It is estimated that the actual population in the Wanli period is between130,000,000 and150,000,000.

Seventeen years of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1644)

The estimated actual number is100,000,000.

Note: The data in this table are derived from Volume 77 of Ming History, Foodstuffs I and Records of Ming Taizu.