Even the Dren Plantation has 26 NPCs there, this is equal to Dagon Fel. That is ahead of Gnar Mok with 20 or Tel Brannora with 35. Sadly we get settlements that are so low populated that Khuul has 14 people living there and yet it qualifies for a silt strider port. In total including all guards, miners, dead npcs excreta there are 2824 non player characters in Vvardenfell. I could have made errors but I believe these numbers are close. I counted all the NPCs in vanilla using the construction kit. However I have been noticing with all these games a sad problem that has it's rout in the construction of all these games. Even on vanilla with Tribunal and Bloodmoon installed and nothing else. Of course I still love Morrowind the most even after all these years but that's just me. I have been playing Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind recently.