It is estimated that in 1800 the population of Paris was
about 550,000 and New York’s about 60,000. In 1931, however, these numbers
increased to 2,800,000 for Paris and 7,400,000 for New York. (Adapted from 'The Timetables of
History', by Bernard Grun, based upon Werner Stein’s Kulturfahrplan)
