{{Short description|Demographics of Lima, Peru}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2012}} The '''demographics of [[Lima]]''' can be reconstructed through the population [[census]]es carried out throughout its history. The government statistics department estimates that a third of [[Peru]]'s population lives in Lima.
==Population by year== {{historical populations|align=none|cols=3 | 1536 |250 | 1614 |26400 | 1791 |56600 | 1812 |63900 | 1820 |64000 | 1827 |60000 | 1839 |55100 | 1850 |80000 | 1861 |100000 | 1877 |101500 | 1890 |103900 | 1896 |113000 | 1900 |103900 | 1908<ref name="Panfichi">{{cite web|last=Panfichi |first=Aldo |title=La Urbanización de Lima |publisher=Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú |date= |url=http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2012/01/urbanizacion_temprana_de_lima.pdf |pages=19 |doi= |accessdate=23 March 2022 }}</ref> |154617 | 1920<ref name="Panfichi"/> |203381 | 1925 |260000 | 1927 |200000 | 1931 |373900 | 1940 |533600 | 1945 |657800 | 1951 |835000 | 1953 |964000 | 1961 |1262100 | 1969 |2541300 | 1981 |3573227 | 1993 |5363270 | 1997 |5930318 | 2000 |6271430 | 2007 |7819436 }}
==Ethnic groups== * [[Mestizo]]s: 69.9%<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Lima (Region-level Province, Peru) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/peru/admin/lima/1501__lima/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref> * [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Quechua]]: 16.8%<ref name="auto"/> * [[European Peruvian|European]]: 7.4%<ref name="auto"/> * [[Afro-Peruvian]]: 2.8% * [[Aymara people|Aymara]]: 0.7% * [[Asian Peruvian|Asian]] or other: 2.3%
==Evolution of the Lima Metropolitan Area== <gallery caption="Evolution of the Lima Metropolitan Area" widths=145 heights=104 class="center"> Image:Evoluciondelima1535.jpg| 1535 Image:Evoluciondelima1750.jpg| 1750 Image:Evoluciondelima1910.jpg| 1910 Image:Evoluciondelima1940.jpg| 1940 Image:Evoluciondelima1970.jpg| 1970 Image:Evoluciondelima1995.jpg| 1995 </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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