Historical population of Poznań
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Historical population of Poznań City in Poland:
[edit] Historical population
| about 1600 | about 20,000 inhabitants in whole conurbation (8000 in city walls, 8000-9000 leftbank suburbs, 3000-3500 on right bank) |
| about 1650 | after Polish-Swedish war of 1655-57: settlement of 200-300 Scots |
| 1655-1657 | about 14,000 inhabitants |
| 1700-1709 | about 12,000 inhabitants. Northern War, city captured and looted by the Swedes, the great plague kills 9000, some 75% of population |
| 1732 | 4000 inhabitants (notes of Jan Rzepecki - town scribe) |
| 1733 | 6000 inhabitants |
| 1768-1772 | fighting between the Bar Confederates and Prussian troops, but reforms of Komisja Dobrego Porządku (Commission of Good Order) gives growth up to 15,000 inhabitants before 1793 (inc. about 20% Germans, 30% Jews) |
| 1794 | 12,538 inhabitants (data of census) |
| 1796 | 16,124 inhabitants (data of census) |
| 1800 | 18,779 inhabitants, with garrison 21,473 (data of census) |
| 1816 | 18,000 (inc. 67% Poles, 22% Jews and 11% Germans, 24,000 with soldiers at the garrison) |
| 1824 | 22,000 inhabitants |
| 1831 | 31,000 inhabitants |
| 1848 | 42,000 inhabitants (43% Poles; 40% of Germans; 17% of Jews) (and 3000 soldiers at the garrison) |
| 1850 | 43,000 inhabitants |
| 1860 | 43,000 inhabitants and 6000 soldiers at the garrison |
| 1861 | 51,000 inhabitants |
| 1867 | 47,000 civil inhabitants (47% Germans; 38% Poles and 15% Jews) |
| 1870 | 54,400 inhabitants |
| 1871 | 65,000 inhabitants (inc. garrison) |
| 1885 | 4800 soldiers at the garrison |
| 1890 | 69,627 inhabitants (data of census) (inc. 51% Poles) |
| 1895 | 73,200 inhabitants |
| 1900 | 110,000 inhabitants and 7000 soldiers at the garrison |
| 1905 | 136,800 inhabitants |
| 1910 | 156,696 civil inhabitants (data of census) (inc. 57% Poles) and 6200 soldiers at the garrison |
| 1913 | 10,000 soldiers at the garrison |
| 1917 | 156,357 inhabitants (from government data) |
| 1918 | 156,091 inhabitants (from government data) |
| in Second Polish Republic *Data taken from number of deaths, births and migration numbers |
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| 1919 | 158,185 inhabitants* |
| 1920 | 162,902 inhabitants* |
| September 3, 1921 | 169,422 inhabitants (census data; inc. 92,089 women) |
| 1922 | 178,229 inhabitants* |
| 1923 | 185,521 inhabitants* |
| 1924 | 193,228 inhabitants* |
| 1925 | 220,023 inhabitants* |
| 1926 | 226,828 inhabitants* |
| 1927 | 237,048 inhabitants* |
| 1928 | 248,426 inhabitants* |
| 1929 | 261,597 inhabitants* |
| 1930 | 266,742 inhabitants* |
| December 9, 1931 | 246,698 inhabitants (census data) inc. 236,200 Poles, 100 Russians, 200 Ukrainians, 6400 Germans, 1100 Jews and 100 others; inc 131,929 woman |
| 1932 | 248,763 inhabitants* |
| 1933 | 252,667 inhabitants* |
| 1934 | 255,557 inhabitants* |
| 1935 | 260,444 inhabitants* |
| 1936 | 265,271 inhabitants* |
| 1937 | 268,794 inhabitants* |
| 1938 | 272,653 inhabitants* |
| June 1, 1939 | 274,155 inhabitants (probably up to 10,000 inhabitants more) |
| Reichsgau Wartheland* *German data used in trial of Arthur Greiser |
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| September 1, 1940 | 287,862 inhabitants (81% Poles; 18% Germans; 2% others) |
| January 1, 1941 | 296,790 inhabitants (80% Poles; 20% Germans; 1% others) |
| August 1, 1941 | 308,051 inhabitants (77% Poles; 23% Germans; 1% others) |
| February 1, 1942 | 318,208 inhabitants (75% Poles; 25% Germans; 1% others) |
| January 1, 1943 | 326,572 inhabitants (74% Poles; 26% Germans; 1% others) |
| October 1, 1943 | 327,026 inhabitants (73% Poles; 26% Germans; 1% others) |
| April 1, 1944 | 323,747 inhabitants (71% Poles; 28% Germans; 1% others) |
| 1939 - 1945 | During WWII, about 8 600 pre-war inhabitants were murdered (inc. about 1,500 Jews); 3,620 were taken to Germany as slave workers (20% of them died); 38,256 inhabitants of Polish nationality was resettled to GG, over 60,000 were deprived of their property and expelled from their homes (ger. Verdrägung, pol. rugi). Approximately 90,000 Germans were settled in the city.
In general: during WWII 14,413 of the pre-war inhabitants died. From this number: 4,025 died as an effect of the combat, 2,255 were executed by German authorities, 6,382 died in concentration camps and prisons; 735 died as slave workers in Germany, 1,070 died of diseases and starvation. Until now, approx. 2,000 persons are still missing. Additional 1,500 of the inhabitants were permanently injured during the war, while another 800 people returned seriously injured from camps and prisons. |
| 1946 | 268,000 inhabitants |
| 1950 | 320,700 inhabitants |
| 1960 | 408,100 inhabitants |
| 1970 | 471,900 inhabitants |
| 1975 | 516,000 inhabitants |
| 1980 | 552,900 inhabitants |
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in the Third Polish Republic |
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| 1990 | 590,049 inhabitants; (maximum) from 1990 migrations from the city to the surrounding areas of Poznań County |
| 1995 | 581,772 inhabitants |
| 2000 | 572,900 inhabitants |
| March 31, 2002 | 571,571 inhabitants inc. 305,567 woman (53%) |
| May 2002 | 578,900 inhabitants (data of census) inc. 309,000 woman (54%), population density: 2187 inhabitants/sq.km |
| Population Forecast 2020 | |
| 2020 | 2020 forecast: Poznań City 584,500 (small increase)
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[edit] See also
[edit] Bibliography
- Jerzy Topolski (red) Dzieje Poznania Warszawa-Poznań 1988-, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe ISBN 83-01-08194-5
- Maria Trzeciakowska, Lech Trzeciakowski, W dziewiętnastowiecznym Poznaniu. Życie codzienne miasta 1815-1914, Poznań 1982, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie ISBN 83-210-0316-8
