Wałbrzych population development
This article shows the population development of Wałbrzych / Waldenburg in the Polish Voivodeship Lower Silesia in tabular and graphic form.
On June 30, 2016 the official population of Wałbrzych was 114,930. According to the CIS, Wałbrzych had the highest population in 1991 with 141,161 inhabitants. It is the second largest city in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship after Wroclaw.
Overview
Until the end of the 19th century, Waldenburg was a small town and had 13,553 inhabitants in 1890. With the industrialization of the Waldenburg area, the town grew into a medium-sized town at the beginning of the 20th century and the population rose to over 60,000 in the 1930s.
At the end of the Second World War, Waldenburg was placed under Polish administration and the systematic expulsion of the German population and the settlement of Polish settlers began. In addition, many Jews were settled in Wałbrzych and other cities in Lower Silesia immediately after the war, in 1947 there were 9,600, and shortly afterwards around 5,000 who initially settled in the city. Only in the mid-1950s did the number of Jews decrease again. Since the German population was needed for industry and mining, part of the Germans were held back in the industrial area until the mid-1950s. This even had special privileges allowed, clubs start to perform German lessons and they had the opportunity to become citizens of the GDR. After that, most of the resettlement began, but a small number stayed there.
As an important industrial location, the city continued to grow rapidly after the Second World War, and in the 1950s the border to the big city was crossed. By the fall of the Berlin Wall, the population rose to around 140,000. Since then the population has been falling.
Population development
- 1875-11,307
- 1880 - 12 063 (including 328 Jews)
- 1890 - 13 553 (including 253 Jews)
- 1925-44 111
- 1933 - 46,986 (including 195 Jews)
- 1939-64 136
- 1946 - 72,976 (census)
- 1950 - 93 842 (census)
- 1955 - 110 267
- 1960 - 117 209 (census)
- 1961 - 119 800
- 1962 - 120 800
- 1963 - 122 700
- 1964 - 124 300
- 1965 - 125 287
- 1966 - 126 100
- 1967 - 125 900
- 1968 - 126 100
- 1969 - 126,000
- 1970 - 125 200 (census)
- 1971 - 124 804
- 1972 - 125 600
- 1973 - 127 400
- 1974 - 127 701
- 1975 - 128 064
- 1976 - 128 800
- 1977 - 129 800
- 1978 - 132 100 (census)
- 1979-132900
- 1980 - 133 549
- 1981 - 134 299
- 1982 - 135 674
- 1983 - 137 401
- 1984-138 037
- 1985 - 138 653 (including about 250 Jews)
- 1986 - 140 405
- 1987 - 141 077
- 1988 - 141 033 (census)
- 1989 - 141 139
- 1990 - 141 011
- 1991 - 141 161
- 1992 - 140 595
- 1993 - 140 294
- 1994 - 140 022
- 1995 - 139 219
- 1996 - 138 597
- 1997 - 137 829
- 1998 - 136 923
- 1999 - 135 733
- 2000 - 134 720
- 2001 - 133 713
- 2002 - 129 724 (census)
- 2003 - 128 809
- 2004 - 127 566
- 2005 - 126 465
- 2006 - 124 988
- 2007 - 123 635 (including about 40 Jews)
- 2008 - 122 411
- 2009 - 121 363
- 2010 - 120 197
- 2011 - 119 955
- 2012 - 119 171
- 2013 - 117 926
- 2014 - 116 691
- 2015 - 115 453
Graphics
- Age pyramid with the age structure of the city for 2014 (women in blue and men in black):
Urban area
- 1995 - 84.79 km²
- 2006 - 84.70 km²
Nationalities
The 2002 census gave the following result with a population of 130,268:
| Nationality (ethnicity) | number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 125,840 | 96.6% |
| German | 113 | 0.09% |
| Roma | 43 | 0.03% |
| Ukrainian | 14th | 0.01% |
| Russian | 28 | 0.02% |
In 2002 it was only possible to name one nationality.
literature
- Roczniki statystyczne CIS
- Roczniki demograficzne CIS
- Bank danych regionalnych CIS
- “Ludność. Stan i Struktura w przekroju terytorialnym "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wirtualny Sztetl
- ↑ State government of North Rhine-Westphalia: Flight and expulsion. Handout for teaching
- ↑ Pol-Int
- ^ " Mniejszości według województw, powiatów i gmin w 2002 r. “, Results of the CIS