In 1983, the population of Tashkent amounted to 1,902,000 people living in a municipal area of . By 1991, (Dissolution of the Soviet Union) the number of permanent residents of the capital had grown to approximately 2,136,600. Tashkent was the fourth most populated city in the former USSR, after Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), and Kyiv. Nowadays, Tashkent remains the fourth most populous city in the CIS and Baltic countries. The population of the city was 2,716,176 people in 2020.