July 11, 2006

Bombay population

And these are official census figures... the unofficial population has to be much more!
In 1968, our population was 60 lakh. It took us 32 years to double the figure (1.20 crore in 2001). But, the UN has predicted that the existing population will double itself in 14 years (2.26 crore in 2015).

(1 crore = 10 million)
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