Population size

• 3.1 Germany
• 3.2 Switzerland

Geographical Population

The number of inhabitants of a country, area, region, city, village, community or the like is collected through a census. According to current statistics and mechanized, modern standards could be written for decades, a census after a single survey. The results of the census in 1981 in East Germany and 1987 in Germany were used, eg, to 2013.

In India took place in 2012, the program Aadhaar, a comprehensive census of the 1.2 billion people using biometric data instead.

The population density ( inhabitants per km ² ) is derived from the population and the total amount of the considered area.

As the site factors in the area density of population can be described the following four conditions:

• Jobs
• Financial income
• Area formality paragraph
• Agriculture

From these factors, one can conclude on the structure of society. Another index for the collection of population statistics is the population pyramid, which is a different for each country precipitating structure of age.

Official Population

Germany

The "official population " is determined by the State Statistical Office and communicated to the community. The official Rolling population based on the census of 1981 in East and West Germany in 1987 was used until 2013. On 31 May 2013, the result of the census of 9 May 2011 was issued, on which from this point along with the change notification of registration offices and the civil registry offices, the current population is determined. Among the residents here include all citizens, regardless of their citizenship or nationality, unless they are entitled to residence in the community. Other hand, are regularly counted only the inhabitants with main residence in the community.

The official population is the basis for many laws ( for example, financial allocations, distribution of electoral districts, number of Council seats and the seats in parliament ). The data published by the Statistical Office have the lowest level the community. The legal basis is the " Law on Statistics of population movements and the update of the population state " ( BevStatG ), in conjunction with the "Law on Statistics for Federal Purposes " ( Federal Statistics Act - BStatG).

Switzerland

In Switzerland, this number is also called the civil population.

Municipal Population

Germany

The "Municipal Population " is used only for internal purposes community ( for example, infrastructure planning ) used and city or won by the local government from the municipal population register. There are all reported in the community people - regardless of legal residence status register - registered. At the municipal inhabitants all belong with main or secondary residence reported in the community people. She does not have a legally - binding.

Due to different definitions of the term " inhabitants " the information provided by the city or municipality are not those of the State Statistical Office and comparable unsuitable for inter-municipal comparisons. For the Official population is exclusively used, as this is determined for all municipalities according to the same criteria. The municipal population differs from methodological reasons, often from the official extrapolated population of the State Statistical Office, from, usually upward.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the economic population is also determined by the community and is used about the same as in Germany.