Berlin population statistics

Berlin is the second most populous city in the European Union, as calculated by city-proper population (not metropolitan area).

1 Population by borough
2 Historical development of Berlin's population
3 Population by nationality
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Population by borough

Borough	Population 30 September 2010	Area in km²	Largest Non-German ethnic groups
Mitte	332,100	39.47	Turks, Arabs, Kurds, many Asians, Africans and Western Europeans.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg	268,831	20.16	Turks, Arabs, African, Kurds, Chinese
Pankow	368,956	103.01	Poles, Italians, French, American, Vietnamese, Brits
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf	320,014	64.72	Turks, Africans, Russians, Arabs, others.
Spandau	225,420	91.91	Turks, Africans, Russians, Arabs, others.
Steglitz-Zehlendorf	293,989	102.50	Poles, Turks, Croats, Serbs, Koreans
Tempelhof-Schöneberg	335,060	53.09	Turks, Croats, Serbs, Koreans, Africans
Neukölln	310,283	44.93	Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Russians, Africans, Poles
Treptow-Köpenick	241,335	168.42	Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Vietnamese
Marzahn-Hellersdorf	248,264	61.74	Russians, Vietnamese, several other Eastern Europeans.
Lichtenberg	259,881	52.29	Vietnamese, Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Chinese
Reinickendorf	240,454	89.46	Turks, Poles, Serbs, Croats, Arabs, Italians
Total Berlin	3,450,889	891.82	Turks, Arabs, Russians, Vietnamese, Poles, Africans

Historical development of Berlin's population

Year	Population
1250	1,200
1307	7,000
1400	8,500
1576	12,000
1600	9,000
1631	8,100
1648	6,000
1685	17,500
1709	57,000
1750	113,289
1775	136,137
1800	172,132
1825	219,968
December 3, 1840 ¹	322,626
December 3, 1846 ¹	408,500
December 3, 1849 ¹	418,733

Year	Population
December 3, 1852 ¹	426,600
December 3, 1855 ¹	442,500
December 3, 1858 ¹	463,600
December 3, 1861 ¹	524,900
December 3, 1864 ¹	632,700
December 3, 1867 ¹	702,400
December 1, 1871 ¹	826,341
December 1, 1875 ¹	969,050
December 1, 1880 ¹	1,122,330
December 1, 1885 ¹	1,315,287
December 1, 1890 ¹	1,578,794
December 2, 1895 ¹	1,678,924
December 1, 1900 ¹	1,888,848
December 1, 1905 ¹	2,042,402
December 1, 1910 ¹	2,071,257
December 1, 1916 ¹	1,712,679

Year	Population
December 5, 1917 ¹	1,681,916
October 8, 1919 ¹	1,902,509
June 16, 1925 ¹	4,024,286
June 16, 1933 ¹	4,242,501
May 17, 1939 ¹	4,338,756
August 12, 1945 ¹	2,807,405
October 29, 1946 ¹	3,170,832
December 31, 1950	3,336,026
December 31, 1960	3,274,016
December 31, 1970	3,208,719
December 31, 1980	3,048,759
December 31, 1990	3,433,695
December 31, 2000	3,382,169
September 30, 2005	3,394,000
September 30, 2010	3,450,889
December 31, 2010	3,460,725

The spike in population in 1920 is a result of the Greater Berlin Act.

Population by nationality

On 31 December 2010 the largest groups by foreign nationality were citizens from Turkey (104,556), Poland (40,988), Serbia (19,230), Italy (15,842), Russia (15,332), United States (12,733), France (13,262), Vietnam (13,199), Croatia (10,104), Bosnia and Herzegovina (10,198), UK (10,191), Greece (9,301), Austria (9,246), Ukraine (8,324), Lebanon (7,078), Spain (7,670), Bulgaria (9,988), the People's Republic of China (5,632), Thailand (5,037).^[1] There is also a large Arabic community, mostly from Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq. Additionally, Berlin has one of the largest Vietnamese communities outside Vietnam, with about 83,000 people of Vietnamese origin.^[2]

Country of origin	Population
Turkey	250,000-300,000^[3] (see: Turks in Berlin)
Russia (including Russian-Germans)	est.200,000^[4]
Poland	est.200,000^[5]
Arab World	est.70,000^[6] (see: Arabs in Berlin)
Vietnam	est. 20,000-40,000 (with Residence permission or German citizenship/without Residence permission)^[7]
Ghana	est. 20,000 (estimations vary from 15,000-25,000). Actually there are about 1,800 Ghanaian citizens residing in Berlin, however, there are many Germans of Ghanaian and other West-African origin or with one parent being German and the other being from Ghana.^[8]
China, Croatia, Serbia, United States, Italy, Bosnia, Iran, Greece	almost or at least 20,000^[9]

References

External links

Berlin State Statistical Office
Berlin State Statistical Office (old homepage)
Schwenk, Herbert, Berliner Stadtentwicklung von A bis Z: Kleines Handbuch zum Werden und Wachsen der deutschen Hauptstadt, 2nd edition. Berlin: Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, 1998.

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