Since the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of New York, these are the official U.S. Census figures of the population of Queens:

1900 152,999
1910 284,041
1920 469,042
1930   1,079,129
1940 1,297,634
1950 1,550,849
1960   1,809,578
1970   1,986,473
1980   1,891,325
1990   1,951,598
2000 2,229,379