Berlin population statistics

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

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Berlin

Population by borough

in Kreuzberg

Berliners at the Tiergarten

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, Americans, Vietnamese, British
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

Berlin's population development since 1920

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 December 31, 2010 3,460,725 December 31, 2020 3,664,088

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

Population by nationality

Country of origin	Population
Germany	2,525,000 [1]
Russia (incl. Russian-Germans)	Est. 300,000 [2] [3]
Turkey	250,000–300,000 [4] (see: Turks in Berlin)
Poland	Est. 300,000- 340.000 [5]
Vietnam	Est. 83,000 [6]
Arab League	Est. 70,000 [7] (see: Arabs in Berlin)
Ghana	Est. 20,000 (estimations vary from 15,000 to 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]
Bosnia and Herzegovina   China   Croatia   Greece   Italy   Iran   Serbia   United States	Almost or at least 20,000 [9]

Berlin has a large population of a migration background. ^[10] 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). ^[11] 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. ^[12]

See also

• Demographics of Berlin
• Demographics of Cologne
• Demographics of Hamburg
• Demographics of Munich

References

1. "Share of Germans without "migrational background"". Berliner Morgenpost. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
2. Lau, Mariam (2014-04-16). "Sie lieben Berlin und schwärmen von Russland | Zeit Online". Die Zeit. zeit.de. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
3. "Russen in Berlin – Wie stehen sie zu Präsident Putin? | Berliner Morgenpost". morgenpost.de. 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
4. "General information about Berlin". Havetravelfun.com. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
5. von Daniela Martens (2010-04-18). "Polen in Berlin: Unter Nachbarn - Berlin - Tagesspiegel" (in German). Tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
6. "The Asia Pacific Times Online - Little Hanoi". Asia-pacific-times.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
9. Repinski, Gordon; Wild, Leonie (6 February 2008). "US-Wahlparty: Exil-Amerikaner in Berlin wählen Obama und McCain - SPIEGEL ONLINE". Der Spiegel. Spiegel.de. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
10. Stevenson, Patrick (2017), Stevenson, Patrick (ed.), "Berlin: City of Migrations" , Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis: Berlin Lives, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 19–50, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40606-0_2, ISBN   978-3-319-40606-0 , retrieved 2025-03-03
11. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
12. "The Asia Pacific Times Online - Little Hanoi". Asia-pacific-times.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2013-02-10.

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.