This was in 1860, when the population numbered but 8,500.

At the end of the 17th century, the town's population numbered about 3,000 inhabitants.

The population numbered some 7,000 people, of whom 500 were Chinese.

As of 2005, the town's population has numbered around 465 inhabitants.

In 1803 the entire territory's population numbered less than 5,000.

Around the start of the 20th century, the population numbered 5,254.

A frame school was built in 1878, and by 1880 the population numbered 500.

Today, the city's population numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

At that time, the population of the island numbered in the hundreds.

By the late 1920s the population numbered over 100,000 people.