The Sydney metropolitan area has a population of 3.27 million (1996) residents, who call themselves Sydneysiders. About 22,000 of these people live in the central area of the city proper. The Sydney conurbation (including the Central Coast, Newcastle, and Wollongong), designated as the Sydney Statistical Division, has an estimated population of 4.04 million (1999). The conurbation contains nearly two-thirds of the state population.
Sydney's population grew steadily after the city was founded in 1788. Sydney had about 50,000 residents by the late 1840s; 100,000 by the mid-1860s; 500,000 around the turn of the century; 1 million by the early 1920s; 2 million by the late 1950s; and 3 million by about 1990. Sydney's population density is among the lowest of any major world city, in part because suburban expansion began in earnest in the late 19th century after mechanized transportation became available.
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