Assertion: conurbation's population | /r/CapableOf | decline to 6.7 million
Facets:
value: in 1988
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The population of the current area of Greater London rose from about 1.1 million in 1801 (when only about 850,000 people were in the urban area, while 250,000 were living in villages and towns not yet part of London) to an estimated 8.6 million in 1939, but declined to 6.7 million in 1988, before starting to rebound in the 1990s.