These changes brought population number to about 30,000 in 1999.
The area remains very popular and is still growing in population numbers.
Today, its population numbers just over 11,000 and is thought to be declining.
Their population numbers being so small, they needed another means of survival.
The population numbers 5,594, of which about 60% are involved in farming.
By the early 1990s, population numbers fell to the lowest in history.
There is little information on the actual population numbers of the different ethnic groups before 1878.
Like in the rest of Afghanistan, no exact population numbers are available.
At that time, population numbers were reported to be decreasing.
The present population numbers only around 50 sheep but is increasing.