About 120 actually, I think.
The Galadrim were mostly Silvan Elves. Silvan Elves are, naturally, forest-dwellers; Lothlorien was a forest, but of course not exactly your average one. It had been influenced by great power. The Mallorns there had been brought from Eressea and were not native to Middle-Earth, and Galadriel's Ring had certainly had big effect. Therefore, once she and her Ring left, the Silvan Galadrim mostly migrated to 'East Lorien' -- Southern Greenwood. The somewhat magical forest was not their natural setting (more suited to High Elves, who liked that kind of thing better, and the Sindar who had lived under Melian) and still less as the Dominion of Men came over them. They faded and became as Thranduil's Elves in the greenwood, and the high might of Lothlorien was unavoidably lost. (Well they're my thoughts on this matter anyway).
Celeborn did in fact leave, becoming 'wearied of his new realm'. He was not Silvan, but a Sinda and one of Doriath at that. He departed before Arwen came to Lorien. Probably, Celeborn's words to Aragorn meant this: 'I am an Elf-King, and as such, my time of glory on Middle-Earth is past. May your fate as the King of Men be otherwise.'
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