Editing Białystok (section)

==Demographics==
{{main|Demographics of Białystok}}
{{Historical populations|1931|91101|1950|68503|1960|120921|1970|168500|1978|211178|1988|263884|2002|291383|2011|294001|2021|294242|footnote=Source:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.polskawliczbach.pl/Bialystok|title=Białystok (podlaskie) » mapy, nieruchomości, GUS, noclegi, szkoły, regon, atrakcje, kody pocztowe, wypadki drogowe, bezrobocie, wynagrodzenie, zarobki, tabele, edukacja, demografia|website=Polskawliczbach.pl|access-date=11 June 2022|archive-date=5 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605190054/https://www.polskawliczbach.pl/Bialystok|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Demographic and occupational structure and housing conditions of the urban population in 1978-1988|url=https://statlibr.stat.gov.pl/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/RQ1U9XAX48KJJDQ54QSAFQKQ6AK6GS.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics Poland - National Censuses|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/podgrup/temat/}}</ref>}}
In June 2020, the population of the city was 296,958.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/BDL/dane/teryt/jednostka|title=Local Data Bank|access-date=21 January 2020|publisher=Statistics Poland|archive-date=22 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422210113/https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/BDL/dane/teryt/jednostka|url-status=live}} Data for territorial unit 2061000.</ref><ref name=CSO/> Among the cities of Poland, Białystok is second in terms of population density, tenth in population, and thirteenth in area.<ref>{{cite web
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Historically, Białystok has been a destination for internal and foreign immigration, especially from [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]. In addition to the [[Polish people|Polish minority]], there was formerly a Jewish majority in Białystok. The Jewish share in the population of Białystok grew from 22.4% (761) in 1765 to 66.6% (6,000) in 1808 and 76% (47,783) in 1895.<ref name="Wrobel" /> According to the [[Russian Empire Census|Russian census of 1897]], out of the total population of 66,000, [[Jews]] constituted 41,900 (around 63% percent).<ref name="zimmerman" /> According to the German census of 1916, Jews comprised about 72% of the inhabitants (no less than 40,000). The demographic situation changed due to the influx of Polish repatriants, [[intelligentsia]] and civil servants, and the enlargement of the city after the [[World War I]].<ref name="Wrobel">{{cite journal |last1=Wróbel |first1=Piotr |title=Na równi pochyłej. Żydzi Białegostoku w latach 1918-1939: demografia, ekonomika, dezintegracja, konflikty z Polakami (On the Downward Path. The Jews of Białystok in 1918-1939; Demography, Economy, Disintegration) |journal=Studia Podlaskie |date=1989 |volume=2 |pages=167–168 |url=https://repozytorium.uwb.edu.pl/jspui/bitstream/11320/4333/1/Studia_Podlaskie_2_Wrobel.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212043753/https://repozytorium.uwb.edu.pl/jspui/bitstream/11320/4333/1/Studia_Podlaskie_2_Wrobel.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-12 |url-status=live |publisher=[[University of Białystok]] |language=pl}}</ref> According to the 1931 census, the population of Białystok totalled 91,101: 45.5% (41,493) [[Roman Catholics]], 43% (39,165) Jews (by religion), and 8.2% (7,502) [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] believers.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Drugi Powszechny Spis Ludności z dn. 9. XII 1931 r.: mieszkania i gospodarstwa domowe, ludność, stosunki zawodowe: województwo białostockie |date=1938 |page=27 |url=http://pbc.biaman.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2107&from=publication |publisher=[[Central Statistical Office (Poland)|GUS]] |language=pl |access-date=2018-11-02 |archive-date=2019-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191120012939/http://pbc.biaman.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2107&from=publication |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Levin |first1=Don |title=The Lesser of Two Evils: Eastern European Jewry under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941 |date=1995 |publisher=The Jewish Publication Society |isbn=978-0827605183 |page=21}}</ref>

In 1936, Białystok had a population of 99,722, of whom: 50.9% (50,758) were Poles, 42.6% (42,482) Jews, 2.1% (2,094) [[Germans]] and 0.4% (359) Russians; 46.6% (45,474) adhered to the Catholic religion, 43% (42,880) to Judaism, 8.2% (8,177) to Eastern Orthodoxy and 2.9% (2,892) to [[Evangelicalism]].<ref name="Wrobel"/> [[World War II]] changed all of this: in 1939, around 107,000 people lived in Białystok,<ref>{{cite book | author = Dānishgāh-i Tihrān. Faculty of Fine Arts| title = International Conference on Reconstruction of War-Damaged Areas: 6–16 March 1986: Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran| year = 1990 | page =148 | publisher =University of Tehran Press}}</ref> but by 1946, the population had dropped to 56,759, with much less ethnic diversity than it had had previously, due primarily to the murder of its large Jewish population.<ref name="ushmm"/> Currently the city's population is 97% Polish, 2.5% Belarusian and 0.5% of a number of minorities including Russians, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians.<ref name="yearbook">{{cite web | url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/yearbooks_ENG_HTML.htm | title=Statistical Yearbooks of Poland | publisher=Central Statistical Office, Warsaw | year=2009 | access-date=2011-01-12 | format=PDF | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210081738/http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/yearbooks_ENG_HTML.htm | archive-date=10 December 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Most of the modern-day population growth is based on internal migration within Poland and urbanization of surrounding areas.<ref name="yearbook"/>