Current Population of Mega City One...?

[El Spurioso]

Anyone?  

[Wils]

I'm not exactly sure if there's a current 'official' number, although I still have 800,000,000 in my head, which is probably *massively* out of date.

[DavidXBrunt]

Between 7 and 12.

[Funt Solo]

I thought it was 800,000,000 prior to the Apocalypse War, which halved it to 400,000,000.

[jimmibo]

Judge Dredd has obviously travelled back in time, and is working undercover as Dan "Hollywood" Henderson in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.  There's no mistaking that chin...

[TordelBack]

Yup, 400 mill would be my reading too - it occasionally creeps up higher, but Necropolis (30 million, wasn't it?), Judgement Day, Sin City, Total War and so forth keep trimming it back.

[El Spurioso]

Thankee all!

-s

[Funt Solo]

And MC-1, post-Apocalypse, according to Gibson:

[worldshown]

I'm sure I've seen a 420 million, but I couldn't say when or what story.

[IndigoPrime]

400 million after the Apocalypse War, as has already been said, but Death wiped out 60 million in Necropolis, and large as MC-1 is, I doubt that figure would have been replenished significantly yet, especially when the various other disasters are taken into account. I'd guess around 350-360 at the mo'. I wonder what Wagner thinks (or if he even cares about such things).

[Funt Solo]

It might be the last panel of Twilight's Last Gleaming, from prog 756.

IIRC, Dredd is sitting astride his lawmaster, looking out over the city - and that's one of the times he gives his "a city of x million people, each one a potential perp, but grud help me, I love it" speech.

This is a job for Logan & His Magic Scanner.

[worldshown]

Just checked in my copy of 'Democracy Now!'. That panel is a quote from 2100 giving the population as 800 million.

[Dudley]

Just realised that MC-1 must have a population mostly aged under 30.

[Funt Solo]

::"Mega-City One, a megalopolis of over 400 million people across the east coast of the United States, features in the Judge Dredd comic, serialised in 2000 AD."

From "megacity" on wikipedia.

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Assuming a population growth rate of 2%, post-Apocalypse, you've got 400 million, with 8 million being added each year from then until Necropolis.

That's approx. 400 + 64 = 464.

Necropolis then kills off 60 million, so we're back to 400-ish, and assumed growth up to this year would be:

400 + 136 = 536 million

However, as was said, there's Judgement Day - there must have been a high death toll, there - Total War nuked out a few sectors.  Did Sin City's infection spread to the city?  I thought it was contained?  

We're looking for about 100 million deaths to get it to 400, 420.

[badboy]

I'm fascinated at how interested I am on facts like these, good work guys! So around 500 mil then?