The population soared from just over 8,000 in 1850 to more than 169,000 by 1900.

For a few days of the year, the population soars to 400, but is usually seven.

With the growth of industry, the city's population soared, from about 5 million in 1949 to nearly 12 million by 1982.

Its population soared in the past decade by 60 percent to 20,069, according to the 2000 census.

In the same period the population of England as a whole soared from just under 13 million.

By the 1880s, Nebraska's population had soared to more than 450,000 people.

Between 1900 and 1930, the city's population soared from 265,000 to over 1.5 million.

Brookhaven's population has soared from 90,000 in 1959 to more than 400,000 last year.

Between 1950 and 1960, Warren's population soared from 42,653 to 89,426.

But the country's population have soared to 1.83 million by the end of 2012, showing 7.5 percent growth over the previous year.