At the 2006 National Census, its population was 604 in 149 households, when it was in the former Nukabad District of
Khash County.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 885 people in 218 households.[6] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 927 people in 290 households.[2]
In 2018, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Taftan County, which was divided into three districts of two rural districts each, with
Nukabad as its capital and only city.[4]
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