The Local Germany

A third of German homes have just one person

Wed, 28 May 2014 14:44:00 +0200

More than a third of German homes have just one person living in them, making single-person apartments Germany's most common household set-up, according to census data released on Wednesday.

Wealthy Bavaria gets €227 mln state payback

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:27:00 +0200

Germany's wealthiest state Bavaria is gaining millions in a federal funding after census results showed more people lived down south than previously thought, the business daily Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday.

Census shows 700,000 German flats lack loos

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:40:00 +0200

Residents of around 700,000 German flats make do without basic sanitation and lack either a loo or a bathroom - according to data from the first census since reunification.

Census shrinks German population by 1.5 million

Fri, 31 May 2013 14:09:00 +0200

Germany has revised down its population by 1.5 million to 80.2 million in the first census since before the country's 1990 reunification, the federal statistics office said on Friday.

Group tries to count American expats abroad

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:32:00 +0200

An organization is hoping to boost the political clout of Americans living in Germany and elsewhere overseas by using technology to count them this summer. Moises Mendoza reports.

Fake census forms probe drug consumption and penis size

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:56:00 +0200

Forms masquerading as Germany's 2011 census but instead asking questions about drug consumption and penis size have been arriving in post boxes around the country.

Germany begins first census in decades

Mon, 09 May 2011 14:03:00 +0200

Germany on Monday began its first official census since the country reunified in 1990, with privacy advocates complaining the questions are excessively intrusive.

NPD banned from taking Frankfurt census

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:39:00 +0100

Members of the National Democratic Party (NPD) have been banned from taking the census in the state of Hesse, following the far-right party's call on its members to volunteer and collect data.

Germany's ageing population heading for massive decline

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:24:00 +0100

The Federal Statistic's Office on Wednesday forecast Germany's rapidly ageing population was likely to decline by 20 percent to around 65 million by 2060.