how many people live in melbourne
4.88 Million â 2014. To know the 2015 estimates, we need to take out an average of the year 2011-2014. Therefore, after taking out the average, we get the estimated population of Melbourne in 2015 as 4.98 Million. Now, we know the population of the city of the last five years. The population of the year 2016 will be calculated on the basis of calculating the population of the past years of the city of Melbourne.