Mapping Population Trends Inwards Europe

Last calendar week the High German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, as well as Spatial Development released a map showing how population has changed inward Europe betwixt 2001 as well as 2011. The BBSR Map of European Population Change shows where populations bring increased as well as decreased throughout Europe.

The Berliner Morgenpost has instantly created an interactive version of the map using the same data. The paper's Where the Population of Europe is Growing – as well as Where it’s Declining map shows population growth inward 119,406 municipalities from 43 European countries (including Turkey).

The map includes a issue of snapshot analyses of interesting trends inward the data. You tin access these snapshots using the links beneath the map. You tin too zoom inward on the map as well as click on whatever of the 119,406 municipalities to thought the percent population alter betwixt 2001 as well as 2011 at the selected location.


The Washington Post has too published an interesting analysis of the BBSR population data. Their article on Where Europe is Growing as well as Where it is Shrinking provides some useful insights into the European population data. For example, the newspaper points out how inward Poland at that topographic point is a clear designing of population growth inward the suburbs around large cities.