The town's population dropped from about 2000 to merely 600, and it took 200 years before the inhabitants again numbered 2000.

The white inhabitants in 1904 numbered 895.

In 1881 its inhabitants numbered 142, increasing to 333 in 1911, and to 439 in 1946.

The 2001 census recorded a population of just 39 for the parish; over 100 years ago, the township's inhabitants numbered 40.

In 1881 the inhabitants of the village numbered 995, increasing to 1119 in 1891, and to 1301 in 1911.

In its prime (around 1900), inhabitants of Sandøya numbered between 600 and 700, and the school had more than 100 students.

By the year 2000, inhabitants numbered just under 5,000.

After seven centuries, the asteroid's inhabitants numbered seventy-five million.

New Amsterdam's inhabitants then numbered only about four hundred, a count that hardly had increased during the previous decade.

By 1582, the town's inhabitants numbered roughly 5,000.