Lahore has a history spread over thousands of years, but very few narrations dwell on the people themselves, on their ethnicity, their linguistic trends and their various sociological structures. If history is about people then we must look at the essentials. Let us look at the numbers over the last half a century. In 1950 the Survey of Pakistan tells us that Lahore had a population of 835,769 persons. In 2021 the ‘World Population Review’ says the number has risen to a projected 13,095,166 persons. This means a staggering annual average increase of 14.66 per cent a year. This is also the speed of urbanisation. Based on an area of 6,300 square kilometres in 2019, this makes the average density of over 16,000 persons per square mile.