GERMANY'S POPULATION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 16

GERMANY'S POPULATION

NOW THE SAME AS IN 1903.

The provisional results of the census iiiUcn on 16lh*June show that the population of post-war Germany is, roughly, 62,500,000, excluding the Saar region, which is estimated to contain another 750,000, states Reuters Berlin correspondent. 'Tho population of Germany is therefore about the fame as it was in 1908, whereas at the outbreak of tho war it was roughly 68,000,000. It is estimated that Germany lost nearly 7,000,000 inhabitants by the cession of various territories under the peace treaty. 2,750,000 by deaths during the war, and 2,500,000 through decreased birth-rate during the war period. If the war had not taken place, Germany would consequently have* had now a total of 75,000,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the population of tho country is steadily increasing. As compared with the cen-' sus taken in 1919, there are three and .one-third million more people, an increase of 5^- per cent.' Berlin is still by far the biggest city in Germany, with 3,900,000 inhabitants. It is thus the second largest city in Europe, only being beaten by London. Hamburg comes next with just over q. (Million, and'Gologno, Munich, Leipzig, and Dresden follow, each with over 600,000 iqhabitauts. Breslau is the only other ritv with a population of more thau half a million."