Talk:History of Cape Town

Timeline of Cape Town

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 15:26, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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Historical population - percentages

I'm a little confused why the percentages of population growth are presented. It seems to suggest information, but it's mostly misinformation as the time spans between the data points are wildly different. A 20% increase over 6 years (2001-2007; 3.09% per year) is actually much steeper than the 533.5% over 95 year (1.96% per year). Also the significance of the percentages is way too precise (I assume 40,000 and 25,000 are mostly estimates with a fair amount of inaccuracy).

Therefore, I'd suggest:

1. Normalize the percentages to year-over-year or get rid of them altogether. (the template already offers this option of per annum growth rate)
2. If we keep percentages, round them at least to whole percentages. Don't keep decimals.

If there's no objection, I'll make the change. effeietsanders 17:48, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Done. effeietsanders 04:22, 6 August 2018 (UTC)