Editing Weimar (section)

=== Demographics ===
[[File:Weimar Einwohner.svg|thumb|History of population until 2010]]

Over the centuries, Weimar remained a small town of less than 5,000 inhabitants. When it became the capital of Saxe-Weimar in 1572, population growth was stimulated and the population increased from 3,000 in 1650 to 6,000 in 1750. Around the year 1800, Weimar had 7,000 inhabitants. Their number grew constantly over the years to 13,000 in 1850, 28,000 in 1900 and 35,000 at the beginning of World War I. During the interwar period, the new capital of Thuringia saw a population boom, which led to 65,000 inhabitants in 1940. Since that time, the population levels have stagnated. The years 2009 to 2012 brought a moderate growth of approximately 0.35% per year, whereas the population in bordering rural regions is shrinking with accelerating tendency. Suburbanization played only a small role in Weimar. It occurred after the reunification for a short time in the 1990s, but most of the suburban areas were situated within the administrative city borders.

The birth surplus was +3 in 2012, this is +0.0 per 1,000 inhabitants (Thuringian average: −4.5; national average: −2.4). The net migration rate was +4.5 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2012 (Thuringian average: -0.8; national average: +4.6).<ref>According to [http://www.tls.thueringen.de/startseite_hinweis.asp Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012040533/http://www.tls.thueringen.de/startseite_hinweis.asp |date=12 October 2013 }}</ref> The most important regions of origin are rural areas of Thuringia, [[Saxony-Anhalt]] and [[Saxony]] as well as foreign countries like Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Like other eastern German cities, Weimar has a relatively small foreign population (compared to the German average): circa 4.0% are non-Germans by citizenship, while 7.9% have a migrant background (according to [[2011 EU census]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/?locale=en#StaticContent:160550000000,BEG_1_4_8,m,table |title=Population depending on citizenship (groups) and migrant background and experience |website=Zensus 2011 |access-date=2020-05-17 |archive-date=10 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110002707/https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/?locale=en#StaticContent:160550000000,BEG_1_4_8,m,table |url-status=live }}</ref> Differing from the national average, the biggest groups of migrants in Weimar are [[Vietnamese people in Germany|Vietnamese people]], [[Russians in Germany|Russians]] and [[Ukrainians in Germany|Ukrainians]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} During recent years, the economic situation of the city improved: the unemployment rate declined from 20% in 2005 to 5.1% in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Navigation/Statistik/Statistik-nach-Regionen/Politische-Gebietsstruktur/Thueringen/Weimar-Stadt-Nav.html |title=Arbeitsmarkt im Überblick – Berichtsmonat Dezember 2019 – Weimar, Stadt |website=Bundesagentur für Arbeit |language=de |access-date=2020-05-17 |archive-date=14 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214005136/http://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Navigation/Statistik/Statistik-nach-Regionen/Politische-Gebietsstruktur/Thueringen/Weimar-Stadt-Nav.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to the official atheism in the former [[East Germany|GDR]], most of the population is non-religious. 21.1% are members of the [[Evangelical Church in Central Germany]] and 6.8% are Catholics (according to 2011 EU census).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/?locale=en#StaticContent:160550000000,BEG_1_1_5,m,table |title=Population depending on sex and religion (in detail) |website=Zensus 2011 |access-date=2020-05-17 |archive-date=10 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110002707/https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/?locale=en#StaticContent:160550000000,BEG_1_1_5,m,table |url-status=live }}</ref>