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The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
From the 16th to the 20th centuries, the British Empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1920 to over 35,500,000 km 2 (13,700,000 sq mi), the largest empire in the world. [1] In terms of population, on the eve of World War II, Britain and her colonial possessions totaled 500 million inhabitants.
In summary, the elite had to respond to changing structural forces, that is, global shifts in power, and order its domestic population, and they were successful; demands for deep political change were finessed and the elite managed the process of the collapse-plus-reconstruction of its sustaining political machineries.
The British Empire increased the wealth and prestige of Britain from 1600. When the colonies became a drain on British resources, Britain grew weary of the struggle to maintain empire and...
3 Μαρ 2011 · By Dr John Darwin. Last updated 2011-03-03. Britain may have emerged victorious from World War Two, but at what cost to its global empire? 1945: End of World War Two. The collapse of...
8 Φεβ 2019 · The breaking up of the British Empire dominated the twentieth century landscape and ushered in a new era of global relations. 1972 – Asians expelled from Uganda. 1982 – Falklands War. 1997 – Hong Kong handed back to Chinese. Present Day – Britain and the Commonwealth Nations.
28 Οκτ 2024 · British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government.
