Editing Kobe (section)

==Demographics==
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; max-width:22em;"
|+Foreigners in Kobe<ref name=pop-detail>{{cite web |url=http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/information/data/statistics/toukei/datakobe/data/dk3003.pdf |script-title=ja:神戸市統計資料 |access-date=January 9, 2020 |quote="{{Nihongo2|6. 外国人数}}" |publisher=Kobe Government |language=ja |archive-date=April 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414172429/http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/information/data/statistics/toukei/datakobe/data/dk3003.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
! Nationality || Population (2018)
|-
| {{flagu|South Korea}} ||17,175
|-
| {{flagu|Mainland China}} ||13,205
|-
| {{flagu|Vietnam}}  ||5,955
|-
| {{flagu|Taiwan}} ||1,309
|-
| Others ||8,974
|-
|}
{{Historical populations
|title       = Historical population
|type        = Japan
|align       = right
|width       = 
|state       = 
|shading     = 
|percentages = 
|footnote    = 
|1870|18650
|1880|48786
|1890|142965
|1900|283839
|1910|398905
|1920|746500
|1925|818619
|1930|915234
|1935|1058053
|1940|1134458
|1945|694000
|1950|821062
|1955|986344
|1960|1113977
|1965|1216682
|1970|1288930
|1975|1360605
|1980|1367390
|1985|1410734
|1990|1477410
|1995|1423792
|2000|1493398
|2005|1525393
|2010|1544873
|2015|1537272
|2020|1521241
}}

[[File:Kobe Metropolitan Employment Area.svg|thumb|200px|The Kobe [[Urban Employment Area|Metropolitan Employment Area]]]]
As of September 2007, Kobe had an estimated [[population]] of 1,530,295 making up 658,876 [[household]]s. This was an increase of 1,347 persons or approximately 0.1% over the previous year. The [[population density]] was approximately 2,768 persons per square kilometre, while there are about 90.2 males to every 100 females.<ref name="population statistics">[http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/06/013/toukei/contents/suikeijinkou.html City of Kobe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225010552/http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/06/013/toukei/contents/suikeijinkou.html |date=December 25, 2008 }} – "Estimated Population of Kobe". Retrieved October 2, 2007.</ref> About thirteen percent of the population are between the ages of 0 and 14, sixty-seven percent are between 15 and 64, and twenty percent are over the age of 65.<ref name="pocket statistics">[http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/06/013/toukei/contents/pocket.html City of Kobe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808061701/http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/06/013/toukei/contents/pocket.html |date=August 8, 2007 }} – "Statistical Summary of Kobe". Retrieved July 25, 2007.</ref>

Approximately 44,000 registered foreign nationals live in Kobe. The four most common nationalities are [[Koreans in Japan|Korean]] (22,237), [[Chinese in Japan|Chinese]] (12,516), Vietnamese (1,301), and [[Americans in Japan|American]] (1,280).<ref name="pocket statistics" />