Miscellaneous Publications30 Years German Unity & Diversity
A Demographic and Cartographic Journey through Time
Sulak, Harun; Fiedler, Christian; Klüsener, Sebastian (2020)
Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung
URN: urn:nbn:de:bib-var-2020-080
When reunification was celebrated on the night of 2 to 3 October 1990, German unity had been formally sealed. Nevertheless, from a demographic point of view, Germany at that time initially consisted of two very different parts. Around three decades have now passed, and the question arises whether what belongs together has actually grown together demographically and cartographically. A new study of the Federal Institute for Population Research focusses on the demographic trends of the past 30 years questioning as to how the German population has changed since reunification and which regional differences have arisen ever since? In order to address these questions, regional comparisons on the level of cities and districts based on new cartographic data are shown for the years 1990 and 2018.
