Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Social Scale

Polity Population

Talking about social scale, polity population is the estimated population of the polity; can change as a result of both adding/losing new territories or by population growth/decline within a region (See here)

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Variable	Definition
Polity	The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s)	The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag	[Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
polity_population_from	The lower range of polity population for a polity.
polity_population_to	The upper range of polity population for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Polity Population from	Polity Population to	Description	Edit
41	(Parthian Empire I)	1 CE	15000000	15000000	None
42	(Roman Empire - Principate)	1 CE	50000000	50000000	None
43	(Parthian Empire I)	1 CE	7500000	7500000	None
44	(Parthian Empire I)	1 CE	25000000	25000000	None
45	(Eastern Han Empire)	57 CE	21007820	21007820	None
46	(Eastern Han Empire)	75 CE	34125021	34125021	None
47	(Eastern Han Empire)	88 CE	43356367	43356367	None
48	(Parthian Empire II)	100 CE	4750000	4750000	None
49	(Kushan Empire)	100 CE	12500000	13500000	None
50	(Roman Empire - Principate)	100 CE	50000000	60000000	None

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