William Strachey estimated their warriors at 140, meaning the tribe likely numbered about 450.

The tribe numbered perhaps a few hundred individuals.

For most of human history, successful tribes have numbered about a hundred.

The two tribes together numbered about 10,000.

No tribe numbered more than four or five thousand fighting-men, with the appropriate number of women and children.

The old tribe here numbered forty-one men, forty-five women, and eleven children under the age of seven.

The Europeans' best guesses are that the tribe numbered from 5000-7000 in 1600, and suffered an extremely rapid decline to about 300 in 1700.

The tribes at Jinchuan numbered less than 30,000 households and took five years to pacify.

For the Wampanoag alone, this was impossible, because at that time their tribe numbered less than 1,000.

In the year 2000 the Atayal tribe numbered 91,883.