Roman Economy - Demography

Demography

In recent years, questions relating to ancient demographics have received increasingly more scholarly attention, with estimates of the population size of the Roman empire at its demographic peak now varying between 60–70 million ("low count") and over 100 million ("high count"). When adhering to a more traditional value of ca. 55 million inhabitants, the Roman Empire still constituted the most populous Western political entity until the mid-19th century and likely remained unsurpassed worldwide until the 2nd millennium AD.