Population development of Wroclaw
This article shows the population development of Wroclaw in tabular and graphical form.
On June 30, 2017, the official population of Wroclaw was 638 364. According to the CIS , Wroclaw had the highest population in 1991 with 643 640 inhabitants. It is currently the fourth largest city in Poland after Warsaw, Krakow and Łódź .
Overview
Wroclaw was one of the largest cities in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire for a long time and has therefore always been the largest metropolis in Silesia. In the 14th century, Breslau was the fifth largest city in Germany with 15,000 inhabitants after Cologne , Lübeck , Nuremberg and Strasbourg . 1500 and 1700 it was the seventh largest city in the empire. In the first half of the 19th century one crossed the border to the big city. In 1880, Breslau grew to become the third largest city in the German Empire and the second largest city in Prussia with 272,912 inhabitants. In the following years, however, other cities overtook Wroclaw with their growth and dropped them to 7th place. Without major incorporations, only through the growth of the core city, Wroclaw grew to half a million inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century. With the Greater Breslau Law in April 1928, a large number of the surrounding municipalities were incorporated into Breslau and Breslau exceeded the mark of 600,000 inhabitants. In 1939 the population was 629,565, making Breslau the ninth largest city in Greater Germany.
With the end of the Second World War, Breslau was placed under Polish administration and almost the entire German population was systematically expelled. In the meantime, Polish settlers were settling in the city. The existing infrastructure and the large amount of living space made it possible for a large number of new residents to settle quickly. Although many institutions from Eastern Galicia and Lviv in Eastern Galicia were settled in Wroclaw after the Second World War, the new Polish residents came from all parts of Poland, mainly from Greater Poland, and the Poles from Eastern Galicia represented a minority in the total population from the start. Already in 1950 there were over 300,000 inhabitants in the city. Although many Jews were settled in Wroclaw and other cities in Lower Silesia immediately after the war, most of them left Poland in the following years and in 1953 and their importance in the city decreased significantly.
Although Wroclaw exceeded the pre-war population again in the 1980s, the city, due to further incorporations in the 1950s and 1970s, had a much larger area of 292.8 square kilometers than it had in 1939 with 174.61 square kilometers. Large numbers of new living space were created with the construction of large housing estates. With 643,640 inhabitants, Wroclaw had its highest population in 1991, which has only fallen slightly since then and has remained at a similar level.
Population development
- 1329-15,500
- 1357 - about 10,000
- 1439 - about 19,000
- 1526-22,000
- 1550-19,800
- 1555 - about 35 400
- 1579 - about 29,000
- 1640-20,000
- 1675 - about 30,000
- 1700 - about 40,000
- 1750-55,000
- 1756-54,774
- 1763 - 42 114
- 1768 - 47,000
- 1785-50 948
- 1799-58 270
- 1800 - 54,000
- 1808 - 64 500
- 1811-62 504
- 1819-78 135
- 1834-91 401
- 1842 - approx. 100,000
- 1849 - 110 702
- 1852 - 121 052
- 1863 - 154 600
- 1868 - 192 100
- 1871 - 207 997 (including 13 916 Jews)
- 1875-239 050
- 1880 - 272 912 (including 17 445 Jews)
- 1885 - 300,000 (including 173,000 Protestants, 109,000 Catholics and 18,000 Jews)
- 1890 - 335 186 (including 17 754 Jews)
- 1895 - 373 200
- 1897 - 398,000
- 1899 - 413,000
- 1900 - 422 709 (including 19 743 Jews)
- 1904 - 461 500
- 1910-512 105
- 1911 - 526 200
- 1919 - 528 260
- 1924 - 555 900
- 1925 - 557 139 (including 23 240 Jews)
- 1933 - 625 198 (including 20 202 Jews)
- 1939 - 629 565
- End of May 1945 - about 202,000 (including 2,000 Poles)
- August 1945 - about 216,000 (including 16,000 Poles, at the end of 1945 about 43,000 Poles)
- February 14, 1946 - 170 656 (including 57 103 Poles, of whom 26 605 (47%) were settled, the rest moved to the city individually, and 20 534 Jews)
- 1948 - 295 796 (including 2,100 Germans, 50,865 Poles from the Kresy ) (census)
- 1950 - 308 925 (census)
- 1955 - 378 619
- 1960 - 430 522 (census)
- 1961 - 442 700
- 1962 - 451 600
- 1963 - 461 900
- 1964 - 469 400
- 1965 - 474 199
- 1966 - 480 600
- 1967 - 506 100
- 1968 - 512 200
- 1969 - 517 400
- 1970 - 526,000 (census)
- 1971 - 531 100
- 1972 - 541 600
- 1973 - 560 300
- 1974 - 568 928
- 1975 - 575 890
- 1976 - 584 500
- 1977 - 592 500
- 1978 - 597 700 (census)
- 1979 - 609 100
- 1980 - 617 687
- 1981 - 621 865
- 1982 - 627 068
- 1983 - 631 287
- 1984 - 635 955
- 1985 - 637 207
- 1986 - 639 998
- 1987 - 640 193
- 1988 - 639 138 (census)
- 1989 - 642 334
- 1990 - 643 218
- 1991 - 643 640
- 1992 - 640 663
- 1993 - 642 332
- 1994 - 642,917
- 1995 - 641 974
- 1996 - 640 600
- 1997 - 639 399
- 1998 - 637 877
- 1999 - 636 765
- 2000 - 633 857
- 2001 - 634 047
- 2002 - 639 150 (census)
- 2003 - 637 548
- 2004 - 636 268
- 2005 - 635 932
- 2006 - 634 630
- 2007 - 632,930
- 2008 - 632 162
- 2009 - 632 146
- 2010 - 632 996 (294 960 male, 338 036 female)
- March 31, 2011 - 630 131 (census)
- December 31, 2011 - 631 235 (294 569 male, 336 666 female)
- 2012 - 631 188 (294 303 male, 336 885 female)
- June 30, 2013 - 631,263 (294,300 male, 336,963 female)
- 2014 - 634 487
- 2015.12.31 - 635 759
- 2016.12.31 - 637 683
Graphics
- Age pyramid with the age structure of the city for 2014 (women in blue and men in black):
Urban area
| 1808 | 20.48 km² |
| 1868 | 30.20 km² |
| 1895 | 30.93 km² |
| 1897 | 35.76 km² |
| 1899 | 36.07 km² |
| 1904 | 42.39 km² |
| 1911 | 49.20 km² |
| 1924 | 49.61 km² |
| 1928 | 174.61 km² |
| 1951 | 225.00 km² |
| 2006 | 292.82 km² |
literature
- Knipping: "The development of Breslau, its incorporations and population figures"
- JG Knie , JML Melcher: “Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places in the royal family. Prussia. Province of Silesia "
- "Encyklopedia Wrocławia"
- Barbara Kwiatkowska: Mieszkańcy średniowiecznego Wrocławia , Breslau 2005
- Roczniki statystyczne CIS
- Roczniki demograficzne CIS
- Bank danych regionalnych CIS
- “Ludność. Stan i Struktura w przekroju terytorialnym "
Individual evidence
- ^ Eberhard Günter Schulz : Birthday speech for Hans-Joachim Kempe on his 60th birthday. (Held on June 13, 1995 at Silesia Castle in Königswinter-Heisterbacherrott) In: Specialized prose research - Transgressions of boundaries. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013 (2014), pp. 553–557, here: p. 553.
- ↑ Retro Library
- ↑ December 1, 1885: 299,640.
- ↑ S. Orgelbranda Encyklopedja Powszechna, Tom XVIII ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 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.
- ↑ Elżbieta Kaszuba: Między propaganda, a rzeczywistością. Polska ludność Wrocławia w latach 1945-1947 , PWN, Warsaw / Breslau 1997
- ↑ Jakub Tyszkiewicz: Od upadku fortress Breslau do stalinowskiego Wrocławia , Warsaw / Breslau 2000
- ↑ Mikołaj Jakubiec: Akcja osadnicza we Wrocławiu w 1945 i na początku 1946 roku in Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny "Sobótka" , Breslau 1964
- ↑ Stan i Struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. Stan w dniu 31 XII.
- ↑ Ludność w gminach. Stan w dniu 31 marca 2011 r. - wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011 r.
- ↑ http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/LUD_bilans_ludnosci_31-12-2011.xls
- ↑ http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/LU_ludnosc_stan_struktura_31_12_2012.pdf
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