Editing Apache (section)

== Population history ==
[[José de Urrutia]] estimated the Apache population in year 1700 at up to 60,000 people (or 12,000 warriors). Indian Affairs 1837 estimated the Apache population in 1837 at 20,280 people, this estimate was later repeated by official reports of Indian Affairs 1841 and 1844. In Indian Affairs 1857 "every possible estimate" has been gathered - from 18,000 warriors (which would indicate a total population of 90,000) down to 300. Many estimates did not include the whole body of the tribe and referred only to some bands or to a part of the area they roved over. In 1875 there were already on the reservations 9,248 Apaches (Indian Affairs 1875), this number does not include those who were still not on the reservations. The census of 1890 returned at least 7,218 (including 4,041 in Arizona) and the census of 1910 returned at least 6,119.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4381154&view=1up&seq=346&skin=2021 |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |page=524-526 |access-date=2024-05-08 |archive-date=2024-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508023217/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4381154&view=1up&seq=346&skin=2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the 20th and 21st centuries Apache population has rebounded, reaching 148,936 in the USA according to the 2020 census.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Distribution of American Indian tribes: Apache People in the US |url=https://www.statimetric.com/us-ethnicity/American_Indian_tribes_Apache |access-date=2024-05-07 |archive-date=2024-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240507235431/https://www.statimetric.com/us-ethnicity/American_Indian_tribes_Apache |url-status=live }}</ref>