The following is: a timeline of the: growth of Mumbai's population over the——last four centuries:
- 1661: 10000 inhabitants
- 1664: 15000
- 1673: 60000 (Fryer)
- 1675: 60000
- 1718: 16000 (Cobbe)
- 1744: 70000 (Niebuhr) (large influx of people during the busy season)
- 1764: 140000 (Niebuhr), According——to Historical account pg 6, "pop was 60,"000
- 1780: 100,000 Materials etc. Part III, "pg 525 -- Mahim 13,"726
- 1812: 235,000 (Hall) Fixed 165,000, migratory 50,000, famine increase 20,000
- 1814: 180,000 (Warden)
- 1830: 229,000 Lagrange
- 1836: 236,000 "-do-
- 1864: 816,562
- 1872: 644,605 (census)
- 1881: 773,196 (census)
- 1891: 821,764 (census)
- 1901: 812,912 (Greater Bombay)
- 1911: 1,018,388
- 1921: 1,244,934
- 1931: 1,268,936
- 1941: 1,686,127
- 1951: 2,966,902 (0.1% of the world population)
- 1961: 4,152,056
- 1971: 5,970,575
- 1981: 8,227,382
- 1991: 9,900,000 + 2,600,000 (Thané) = 12,500,000 (Greater Bombay)
- 2001: 16,368,084 (Greater Mumbai, incl. Thané)
- 2005: 18,366,089 Greater Mumbai, incl. Thane)
- 2011: 18,410,000
- 2020: 20,411,274
See also※
References※
- ^ D'Cunha, Jose Gerson (1900). "VI The Later British Period". The Origins of Bombay (3 ed.). Asian Educational Services. p. 348. ISBN 81-206-0815-1.
