Population development of Wuppertal
This article shows the population development of Wuppertal in tabular form.
On June 30, 2011, the " official population " of Wuppertal was 349,596 according to an update by the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine- Westphalia (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices ).
Population development
In the Middle Ages and the early modern period , Barmen and Elberfeld only had a few thousand inhabitants. The population grew only slowly and fell again and again due to the numerous wars, epidemics and famine. Only with the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century did population growth accelerate. In 1800 there were 12,000 people each in Barmen and Elberfeld. At that time, both cities, together with Cologne , Aachen , Düsseldorf , Trier , Koblenz and Krefeld, were already among the larger cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants of the later Prussian Rhine province. As early as 1884 , the population of both cities reached the limit of 100,000, making them large cities .
On August 1, 1929, the following communities merged to form the town of "Barmen-Elberfeld" (from 1930 Wuppertal) with 415,000 inhabitants (the population from the census of June 16, 1925 in brackets ): Barmen (187,239), Elberfeld (167,025), Vohwinkel (16.105), Cronenberg (14,039) and Ronsdorf (12,526). The district of Beyenburg of the then city of Lüttringhausen and parts of Haan, Wülfrath, Hardenberg-Neviges, Schöller, Gruiten and Gennebreck were also incorporated. By 1939 the population had dropped to 402,000.
During the Second World War , Wuppertal was the target of Allied bombing. In the heaviest air raids on Wuppertal in May and June 1943, 6,000 people died and around half of the city was destroyed. Overall, Wuppertal lost around 20 percent of its residents (83,463 people) through evacuation, flight, deportations and air strikes. The population fell to 318,000 by December 1945. In 1955 the city had as many inhabitants as before the war.
In 1963 the population reached its historic high of 423,453. At the end of 2009, the city with 351,050 inhabitants was 17th among the major German cities and 7th within North Rhine-Westphalia. That is a decrease of 17.1 percent (72,403 people) since 1963. According to the state office's population forecast, a further decline to 324,500 inhabitants is to be expected by 2025.
The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. Up to 1810 these are mostly estimates, then census results (¹) or official updates by the city administration (until 1970) and the State Statistical Office (from 1971). From 1834 the information relates to the “customs clearance population”, from 1871 to the “local population”, from 1925 to the resident population and since 1987 to the “population at the place of the main residence”. Before 1834, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey methods.
Barmen from 1591 to 1928
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¹ census result
Elberfeld from 1610 to 1928
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¹ census result
Wuppertal from 1929 to 1944
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¹ census result
Source: City of Wuppertal
Wuppertal from 1945 to 1989
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¹ census result
Sources: City of Wuppertal (until 1970), State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (from 1971)
Wuppertal from 1990
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Source: State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia
Population forecast
In its 2006 “Guide to Demographic Change 2020”, in which the Bertelsmann Foundation provides data on the development of the population of 2,959 municipalities in Germany, a population decline of 8.1 percent (29,322 people) is predicted for Wuppertal between 2003 and 2020 .
Absolute population development 2012–2030 - forecast for Wuppertal (main residences):
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Source: Bertelsmann Foundation
In March 2016, Deutsche Postbank AG published a study conducted by Michael Bräuninger, professor at Helmut Schmidt University , entitled Housing Atlas 2016 - Living in the City , in which a population forecast for 36 major German cities for the year 2030 is carried out. It also explicitly takes into account the immigration in the context of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 . For Wuppertal, it predicts a population decline of 4.85% from 2015 to 2030 despite the influx of refugees.
Population structure
The largest groups of foreigners legally registered in Wuppertal on December 31, 2016 came from Turkey (11,495), Italy (6,550), Syria / Arab Republic (6,265), Greece (5,765), Poland (5,475), Romania (2,750), Morocco (1,955), Serbia without Kosovo (1,935), Macedonia (1,565), Iraq (1,560). The official statistics correctly do not include naturalized persons as foreigners, children of foreign descent born as Germans in Germany and all other persons with German citizenship.
| population | As of December 31, 2017 |
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| Residents with main residence | 360.434 |
| of which male | 178.106 |
| Female | 182,328 |
| German | 290.920 |
| of which male | 141,332 |
| Female | 149,588 |
| Foreigners | 69,514 |
| of which male | 36,774 |
| Female | 32,740 |
| Proportion of foreigners in percent | 19.3 |
Source: "The Wuppertal Statistics Database"
age structure
The following overview shows the age structure as of December 31, 2017 (main residences).
| Age from - to | population | Percentage |
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| 0 - 5 | 20,616 | 5.7 |
| 6-14 | 29,406 | 8.2 |
| 15-17 | 10,354 | 2.9 |
| 18 - 24 | 30,215 | 8.4 |
| 25-44 | 91,704 | 25.4 |
| 45 - 59 | 82.065 | 22.8 |
| 60-64 | 21,661 | 6.0 |
| 65-74 | 34,436 | 9.6 |
| 75 and older | 39,977 | 11.1 |
| total | 360.434 | 100.0 |
Source: "The Wuppertal Statistics Database"
See also
- List of boroughs and districts of Wuppertal
- Cronenberg (Wuppertal) #inhabitant development
- Ronsdorf # population development
- Vohwinkel # population development
literature
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici (ed.): Communications from the Statistical Bureau in Berlin , 1848–1861
- Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook for the German Empire , 1880–1918
- Statistisches Reichsamt (Ed.): Statistical yearbook for the German Reich , 1919–1941 / 42
- German Association of Cities (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook of German Communities , 1890 ff.
- Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany , 1952 ff.
- Bertelsmann Stiftung (Ed.): Guide to Demographic Change 2020. Analyzes and action plans for cities and municipalities. Bertelsmann Stiftung Publishing House, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-89204-875-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ IT.NRW: Official population figures ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bertelsmann Foundation: [1]
- ↑ Press release Deutsche Post AG: Postbank study "Housing Atlas 2016 - Living in the City": Where population growth causes prices to rise , published on March 3, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2016
- ↑ Integration profile Wuppertal. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b demographic statistics. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
