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Demographics of Hamburg
Population pyramid of Hamburg in 2022
Population	1,787,408 (2015)

The German city of Hamburg is the most populous city in the European Union which is not a national capital. The city contains an approximate 1.8 million people.

The figures since 1970 are published by the Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein, based on the information of several state authorities.

Population

On December 31, 2006 there were 1,754,182 registered people living in Hamburg (up from 1,652,363 in 1990). The population density was 2,322/km (6,010/sq mi).

There were 856,132 males and 898,050 females in Hamburg. For every 1,000 males there were 1,049 females. In 2006 there were 16,089 births in Hamburg, of which 33.1% were given by unmarried women, 6,921 marriages and 4,583 divorces. In 2006, 198 registered partnerships took place at the civil registration office (Standesamt). 40 partnerships were dissolved by court order since 2001. The age distribution was 15.7% under the age of 18, and 18.8% were 65 or older. In 2006, there were 257,060 foreign residents were living in Hamburg (14.8% of the population). The largest group being Turkish nationals at 58,154 (22.6% of foreign residents ), followed by 20,743 Polish nationals. 4,046 people were from the United Kingdom and 4,369 were from the United States. According to GTZ, 22,000 immigrants living in Hamburg are from Afghanistan, thus forming the largest Afghan community in Germany and Europe.

After a descent of the population in the 1970s, Hamburg has constantly grown since 1999. However, the number of deaths were greater than the number of births until 2010.

Households

On 31 December 2016, there were 1,860,759 people registered as living in Hamburg in an area of 755.3 km (291.6 sq mi). The population density was 2,464/km (6,380/sq mi). The metropolitan area of the Hamburg region (Hamburg Metropolitan Region) is home to 5,107,429 living in an area of 26,000 km (10,000 sq mi) at a density of 196/km (510/sq mi).

There were 915,319 women and 945,440 men in Hamburg. For every 1,000 males, there were 1,033 females. In 2015, there were 19,768 births in Hamburg (of which 38.3% were to unmarried women); 6422 marriages and 3190 divorces, and 17,565 deaths. The age distribution was 16.1% under the age of 18, and 18.3% were 65 or older. 356 People in Hamburg were over the age of 100.

According to the Statistical Office of the State of Hamburg, the number of people with a migrant background is at 34% (631,246). Immigrants come from 180 countries. 5891 people have acquired German citizenship in 2016.

In 2016, there were 1,021,666 households, of which 17.8% had children under the age of 18; 54.4% of households were made up of singles. 25.6% of households with children were single parent households. The average household size was 1.8.

Quarters and boroughs

In 2008 Wandsbek was the most populous borough in Hamburg. Until February 2008 the Harburg borough was the second-most. Through the change of the borders in Hamburg, the quarter Wilhelmsburg merged into Hamburg-Mitte, and Hamburg-Mitte became the second-most populous borough.

Ethnic groups

In 2008 Hamburg had the highest Afghan diasporic population of any city in the continent, with 7,000 German citizens of Afghan origin and 14,000 other residents of Afghan origin. The city has therefore been nicknamed by some as Little Kabul. Immigration began with the start of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979 and additional immigration came after its end. Due to the differing origins and political affiliations of the emigrés, Jochen-Martin Dutsch [de] et al. wrote in Der Spiegel that "Hamburg's Afghan community was relatively loose-knit and was rarely perceived as an ethnic group, partly because these immigrants had been so deeply divided at home that there was little left to unite them as a community abroad." Therefore the residents focused internally on their own families and keeping them together. Afghan Museum was in Hamburg.

In 1963 there were 800 Japanese people in Hamburg, including 50 children. In 1985 the city had a Japanese community, though it was not the largest in Germany as by then Düsseldorf had the largest one. Japanese School in Hamburg is in nearby Halstenbek.

Sexual orientation

The Hamburg Institute for Sexual Research conducted a survey over the sexual behavior of young people in 1970, and repeated it in 1990. Whereas in 1970 18% of the boys aged 16 and 17 reported to have had at least one same-sex sexual experience, the number had dropped to 2% by 1990. "Ever since homosexuality became publicly argued to be an innate sexual orientation, boys' fear of being seen as gay has, if anything, increased," the director of the institute, Volkmar Sigusch, suggested in a 1998 article for a German medical journal.

See also

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

Notes

 a: The total figures for area and population are taken from the Misplaced Pages site.

 b: The total figures for area and population include only European portions of transcontinental countries. The precision of these figure is compromised by the ambiguous geographical extend of Europe and the lack of references for European portions of transcontinental countries.

 c: The total figures include the island Neuwerk and people living on ships.

 d: Only liveborn without later correction.

References

1. ^ Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Statistisches Jahrbuch 2007/2008, 2007, Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg ISSN 1614-8045
2. Senate of Hamburg (2007-02-07), Schriftliche Kleine Anfrage und Antwort des Senats 18/5735 (in German), Hamburg, Germany: Hamburgische Bürgerschaft, retrieved 2008-08-21
3. GTZ - Migration and development: Afghans in Germany Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
4. Staff (2016), Hamburger Melderegister (PDF) (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein)
5. Hamburg Metropolitan Area fact sheet (PDF), Office of Statistics for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), retrieved 25 July 2017
6. https://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Statistische_Berichte/bevoelkerung/A_I_S_1_j_H/A_I_S1_j16.pdf
7. https://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Statistik_informiert_SPEZIAL/SI_SPEZIAL_V_2017_Korrektur.pdf
8. https://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Jahrb%C3%BCcher/Hamburg/JB16HH_Gesamt_Internet_min.pdf
9. Selectable data base: Source: Residents registration office, Regionalergebnisse (PDF) (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, retrieved 25 July 2016
10. "Act of the areal organisation", HMBGVBL. 2006 (in German), Senate of Hamburg, p. 397, 2006-07-06, archived from the original on 2007-08-13
11. Sadat, Mir Hekmatullah (2008). "Hyphenating Afghaniyat(Afghan-ness) in the Afghan Diaspora". Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 28 (3): 329–342. doi:10.1080/13602000802547898. S2CID 143899844.
12. ^ Gutsch, Jochen-Martin; Per Hinrichs; Susanne Koelbl; Gunther Latsch; Sven Röbel; Andreas Ulrich (2008-05-27). "The High Price of Freedom". Der Spiegel. Translated by Christopher Sultan. p. 1. Retrieved 2019-11-30. - Original German version: Gutsch, Jochen-Martin; Hinrichs, Per; Koelbl, Susanne; Latsch, Gunther; Röbel, Sven; Ulrich, Andreas (25 May 2008). "Eigentum des Mannes". Der Spiegel. - PDF page
13. Kolarczyk, Arne. "Japaner feiern Jubiläum." Hamburger Abendblatt. 12 June 2013. Retrieved on 2 January 2016. "1963 lebten 800 Japaner in Hamburg. Darunter waren 50 Kinder."
14. Heinrich, Mark. "Corporate Japanese colony sprouts in West German city." Associated Press at the Houston Chronicle. Sunday November 224, 1985. Page 1, Section 4. Available from NewsBank, Record Number HSC112453511. Available online from the Houston Public Library with a library card. "About 16,500 Japanese live in West Germany. Smaller communities reside in Frankfurt, center of international banking in West Germany, and in Hamburg, hub for import-export and shipping firms."
15. Schmidt, Gunter (2001-03-17), Gibt es Heterosexualität? (Does homosexuality exist?) (in German), Die tageszeitung, Lesbische und Schwule Basiskirche Basel, archived from the original (reprint) on 2013-10-24, retrieved 2008-10-01
16. Sigusch, Prof. Dr. med. Volkmar (1998-05-15), "Jugendsexualität - Veränderungen in den letzten Jahrzehnten", Deutsches Ärzteblatt (in German), 20, Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag: A–1240, archived from the original (reprint) on 2008-09-13, retrieved 2008-10-01, Seitdem die Homosexualität als eine eigene Sexualform öffentlich verhandelt wird, kommt die Befürchtung der Jungen hinzu, womöglich als "Schwuler" angesehen zu werden.

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