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| Date | Numbers | Source | Reference and Notes |
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| September 2014 | "about 1,300" in Calais overall (before this jungle) | Guardian | [{{cite news |title=Calais mayor threatens to block port if UK fails to help deal with migrants |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/03/calais-mayor-threatens-block-port-uk-fails-help-migrants |accessdate=21 August 2019 |work=Guardian |agency=Agence France-Presse in Paris |date=3 September 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404055953/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/03/calais-mayor-threatens-block-port-uk-fails-help-migrants |archivedate=4 April 2019}}] |
| July 2015 | "up to 3,000" | Daily Telegraph | [{{cite news |last1=Mulholland |first1=Rory |title=Calais crisis: Bicycle repair shops, mosques and an Orthodox church - the town where migrants wait to cross to Britain |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11718598/Calais-crisis-Bicycle-repair-shops-mosques-and-an-Orthodox-church-the-town-where-migrants-wait-to-cross-to-Britain.html |accessdate=21 August 2019 |work=Daily Telegraph|date=5 July 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125222725/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11718598/Calais-crisis-Bicycle-repair-shops-mosques-and-an-Orthodox-church-the-town-where-migrants-wait-to-cross-to-Britain.html |archivedate=25 January 2019}}] |
| August 2015 | 2,500 | Guardian | [{{cite news|last1=Fraser|first1=Giles|title=The migrants' church in Calais is a place of raw prayer and defiant hope|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/aug/07/migrants-church-in-calais-place-of-raw-prayer-and-defiant-hope|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=25 July 2016|date=2015-08-07|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421023511/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/aug/07/migrants-church-in-calais-place-of-raw-prayer-and-defiant-hope |archivedate=21 April 2019}}] |
| September 2015 | " 3,000 or so" | BBC | [{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34155565|title=Couple overwhelmed by Calais donations|date=6 September 2015|work=BBC News|access-date=20 May 2018|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728045320/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34155565|archive-date=28 July 2018|url-status=live}}] |
| September 2015 | "doubled over the past three weeks to 6,000" | France24 | [{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20151021-france-cazeneuve-calais-jungle-britain-role-resolving-refugee-migrant-crisis|title=What is Britain doing to help the Calais migrant crisis? - France 24|date=21 October 2015|access-date=21 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021222454/http://www.france24.com/en/20151021-france-cazeneuve-calais-jungle-britain-role-resolving-refugee-migrant-crisis|archive-date=21 October 2015|url-status=live}}] |
| November 2015 | "some 6,000" [in Calais overall] | Economist | [{{cite news|title=France has less and less influence in the EU, and fears to use what it still has|url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21677987-france-has-less-and-less-influence-eu-and-fears-use-what-it-still-has-dispensable|accessdate=7 November 2015|work=The Economist|date=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107041712/http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21677987-france-has-less-and-less-influence-eu-and-fears-use-what-it-still-has-dispensable|archive-date=7 November 2015|url-status=live}}] |
| End 2015 | 6,000 | Antipode | [{{Cite journal|last=Davies|first=Thom|last2=Isakjee|first2=Arshad|last3=Dhesi|first3=Surindar|date=1 January 2017|title=Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe|journal=Antipode|volume=49|issue=5|pages=1263–1284|language=en|doi=10.1111/anti.12325|issn=1467-8330|url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/48979639/Davies_et_al_2017_Antipode.pdf}}] |
| January 2016 | "4,000" | Reuters | [{{cite news |last1=Blamont |first1=Matthias |title=Migrant shelter made of shipping containers opens in France's Calais |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-calais-idUSKCN0UP23R20160111 |accessdate=21 August 2019 |work=Reuters |date=11 January 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802172357/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-calais-idUSKCN0UP23R20160111 |archivedate=2 August 2019}}] |
| January 2016 | "up to 5,000" | Guardian | [{{cite news |last1=Kingsley |first1=Patrick|title=Calais 'Jungle' residents defy bulldozers as police issue ultimatum to leave |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/12/calais-jungle-residents-defy-bulldozers-police-ultimatum |accessdate=21 August 2019 |work=Guardian |date=12 January 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221144945/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/12/calais-jungle-residents-defy-bulldozers-police-ultimatum|archivedate=21 December 2016}}] |
| February 2016 | "3,700" | Radio France Internationale | [{{cite news |last1=Elzas |first1=Sarah|title=Calais Jungle to be demolished, yet migrants resist government rehousing |url=http://en.rfi.fr/europe/20160222-calais-jungle-be-demolished-yet-migrants-resist-government-housing |accessdate=21 August 2019 |work=Radio France Internationale|date=22 February 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424155453/http://en.rfi.fr/europe/20160222-calais-jungle-be-demolished-yet-migrants-resist-government-housing|archivedate=24 April 2016}}] |
| March 2016 | Authorities: "3,700 people live in the camp, and that between 800 and 1,000 will be affected by the eviction" [of the southern part] Charities: "at least 3,450 people in the southern part alone, including 300 unaccompanied children" | France24 | [{{cite news|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20160229-france-calais-clashes-riot-police-migrants-authorities-dismantle-part-jungle-migrant-camp|title=Clashes as authorities dismantle Calais 'Jungle'|date=3 March 2016|accessdate=25 February 2016|work=France24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602054529/http://www.france24.com/en/20160229-france-calais-clashes-riot-police-migrants-authorities-dismantle-part-jungle-migrant-camp|archive-date=2 June 2016|url-status=live}}] |
| February 2016 | "Calais officials say it houses 3,700, while Help Refugees puts it at 5,497" | BBC | [{{cite news|title=EU migrant crisis: Clashes as France clears Calais 'Jungle'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35686209|author=|date=29 February 2016|website=BBC News|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120010111/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35686209|archive-date=20 November 2018|url-status=live}}] |
| October 2016 | "about 7,000" | BBC | [{{cite news |last1=Rahman-Jones |first1=Imran |title=The history of the Calais 'Jungle' camp and how it's changed since 1999 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37750368/the-history-of-the-calais-jungle-camp-and-how-its-changed-since-1999 |accessdate=9 March 2020 |work=BBC Newsbeat |date=24 October 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309214927/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37750368/the-history-of-the-calais-jungle-camp-and-how-its-changed-since-1999 |archivedate=9 March 2020 |language=en}}] |
| October 2016 | 8,143 | BBC | Census by Help Refugees [{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37773848 |title=Calais 'Jungle' cleared of migrants, French prefect says |date=26 October 2016|work=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627182909/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37773848| archive-date=27 June 2019}}] |
| 2016 | 10,000 | Antipode | |