Editing West Germany (section)

==Demographics==

===Population and vital statistics===
Total population of West Germany from 1950 to 1990, as collected by the {{lang|de|[[Statistisches Bundesamt]]}}.<ref name="Bevölkerungsstand" />

<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zusammenfassende Übersichten – Eheschließungen, Geborene und Gestorbene 1946 bis 2015 |url=https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Thematisch/Bevoelkerung/Bevoelkerungsbewegung/ZusammenEheschliessungenGeboreneGestorbene.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811064452/https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Thematisch/Bevoelkerung/Bevoelkerungsbewegung/ZusammenEheschliessungenGeboreneGestorbene.html |archive-date=11 August 2018 |access-date=11 August 2018 |website=DESTATIS – Statistisches Bundesamt}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
!
! width="70pt"|Average population (x 1000)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Population by area in 1,000 |url=https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/CurrentPopulation/Tables_/lrbev03.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811063442/https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/CurrentPopulation/Tables_/lrbev03.html |archive-date=11 August 2018 |access-date=11 August 2018 |website=DESTATIS – Statistisches Bundesamt}}</ref>
! width="70pt"|Live births
! width="70pt"|Deaths
! width="70pt"|Natural change
! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|TFR
|-
| 1946
|
|732 998||588 331||144 667
|15.9||12.7||3.2||1.89
|-
| 1947
|
|781 421||574 628||206 793
|16.6||12.2||4.4||2.01
|-
| 1948
|
|806 074||515 092||290 982
|16.7||10.6||6.0||2.07
|-
| 1949
|
|832 803||517 194||315 609
|16.9||10.5||6.4||style="color: blue"|2.14
|-
| 1950
| 50 958
|812 835||528 747||284 088
|16.3||10.6||5.7||style="color: blue"|2.10
|-
| 1951
| 51 435
|795 608||543 897||251 711
|15.7||10.8||4.9||2.06
|-
| 1952
| 51 864
|799 080||545 963||253 117
|15.7||10.7||5.0||2.08
|-
| 1953
| 52 454
|796 096||578 027||218 069
|15.5||11.3||4.2||2.07
|-
| 1954
| 52 943
|816 028||555 459||260 569
|15.7||10.7||5.0||style="color: blue"|2.12
|-
| 1955
| 53 518
|820 128||581 872||238 256
|15.7||11.1||4.6||style="color: blue"|2.11
|-
| 1956
| 53 340
|855 887||599 413||256 474
|16.1||11.3||4.8||style="color: blue"|2.19
|-
| 1957
| 54 064
|892 228||615 016||277 212
|16.6||11.5||5.2||style="color: blue"|2.28
|-
| 1958
| 54 719
|904 465||597 305||307 160
|16.7||11.0||5.7||style="color: blue"|2.29
|-
| 1959
| 55 257
|951 942||605 504||346 438
|17.3||11.0||6.3||style="color: blue"|2.34
|-
| 1960
| 55 958
|968 629||642 962||325 667
|17.4||11.6||5.9||style="color: blue"|2.37
|-
| 1961
| 56 589
|1 012 687||627 561||385 126
|18.0||11.2||6.9||style="color: blue"|2.47
|-
| 1962
| 57 247
|1 018 552||644 819||373 733
|17.9||11.3||6.6||style="color: blue"|2.45
|-
| 1963
| 57 865
|1 054 123||673 069||381 054
|18.4||11.7||6.7||style="color: blue"|2.52
|-
| 1964
| 58 587
|1 065 437||644 128||421 309
|18.3||11.1||7.2||style="color: blue"|2.55
|-
| 1965
| 59 297
|1 044 328||677 628||366 700
|17.8||11.6||6.3||style="color: blue"|2.51
|-
| 1966
| 59 793
|1 050 345||686 321||364 024
|17.8||11.6||6.2||style="color: blue"|2.54
|-
| 1967
| 59 948
|1 019 459||687 349||332 110
|17.2||11.6||5.6||style="color: blue"|2.54
|-
| 1968
| 60 463
|969 825||734 048||235 777
|16.3||12.3||4.0||style="color: blue"|2.39
|-
| 1969
| 61 195
|903 456||744 360||159 096
|15.0||12.4||2.6||style="color: blue"|2.20
|-
| 1970
| 61 001
|810 808||734 843||75 965
|13.4||12.1||1.3||1.99
|-
| 1971
| 61 503
|778 526||730 670||47 856
|12.7||11.9||0.8||1.92
|-
| 1972
| 61 809
|701 214||731 264||style="color: red"|−30 050
|11.3||11.8||style="color: red"|−0.5||1.72
|-
| 1973
| 62 101
|635 663||731 028||style="color: red"|−95 395
|10.3||11.8||style="color: red"|−1.5||1.54
|-
| 1974
| 61 991
|626 373||727 511||style="color: red"|−101 138
|10.1||11.7||style="color: red"|−1.6||1.51
|-
| 1975
| 61 645
|600 512||749 260||style="color: red"|−148 748
|9.7||12.1||style="color: red"|−2.4||1.45
|-
| 1976
| 61 442
|602 851||733 140||style="color: red"|−130 289
|9.8||11.9||style="color: red"|−2.1||1.46
|-
| 1977
| 61 353
|582 344||704 922||style="color: red"|−122 578
|9.5||11.5||style="color: red"|−2.0||1.40
|-
| 1978
| 61 322
|576 468||723 218||style="color: red"|−146 750
|9.4||11.8||style="color: red"|−2.4||1.38
|-
| 1979
| 61 439
|581 984||711 732||style="color: red"|−129 748
|9.5||11.6||style="color: red"|−2.1||1.39
|-
| 1980
| 61 658
|620 657||714 117||style="color: red"|−93 460
|10.1||11.6||style="color: red"|−1.5||1.44
|-
| 1981
| 61 713
|624 557||722 192||style="color: red"|−97 635
|10.1||11.7||style="color: red"|−1.6||1.43
|-
| 1982
| 61 546
|621 173||715 857||style="color: red"|−94 684
|10.1||11.6||style="color: red"|−1.5||1.41
|-
| 1983
| 61 307
|594 177||718 337||style="color: red"|−124 160
|9.7||11.7||style="color: red"|−2.0||1.33
|-
| 1984
| 61 049
|584 157||696 118||style="color: red"|−111 961
|9.5||11.4||style="color: red"|−1.9||1.29
|-
| 1985
| 61 020
|586 155||704 296||style="color: red"|−118 141
|9.6||11.6||style="color: red"|−2.0||style="color: red"|1.28
|-
| 1986
| 61 140
|625 963||701 890||style="color: red"|−118 141
|10.3||11.5||style="color: red"|−1.2||1.34
|-
| 1987
| 61 238
|642 010||687 419||style="color: red"|−45 409
|10.5||11.3||style="color: red"|−0.8||1.37
|-
| 1988
| 61 715
|677 259||687 516||style="color: red"|−10 257
|11.0||11.2||style="color: red"|−0.2||1.41
|-
| 1989
| 62 679
|681 537||697 730||style="color: red"|−16 193
|11.0||11.2||style="color: red"|−0.2||1.39
|-
| 1990
| 63 726
|727 199||713 335||13 864
|11.5||11.3||0.2||1.45
|-
|}

===Religion===
{{see also|Protestantism in Germany|Protestant Church in Germany|Roman Catholicism in Germany|Central Council of Jews in Germany}}
Religious affiliation in West Germany decreased from the 1960s onward.<ref name="fowid1">FOWID, Religionszugehörigkeit Bevölkerung 1970–2011 ([http://fowid.de/fileadmin/datenarchiv/Religionszugehoerigkeit/Religionszugehoerigkeit_Bevoelkerung_1970_2011.pdf online] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015230431/http://fowid.de/fileadmin/datenarchiv/Religionszugehoerigkeit/Religionszugehoerigkeit_Bevoelkerung_1970_2011.pdf |date=15 October 2015}}; PDF-Datei; 173&nbsp;kB)</ref> Religious affiliation declined faster among Protestants than among Catholics, causing the Roman Catholic Church to overtake the EKD as the largest denomination in the country during the 1970s.

{{bar box
|title=Religion in West Germany, 1970
|left1=religion
|right1=percent
|float=right
|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Protestant Church in Germany|{{lang|de|EKD|nocat=y}} Protestantism]]|DeepSkyBlue|49|49%}}
{{bar percent|[[Roman Catholicism]]|Purple|44.6|44.6%}}
{{bar percent|Others & Unaffiliated|LightGrey|6.4|6.4%}}}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:60pt;"|Year
! style="width:120pt;"|EKD Protestant [%]
! style="width:120pt;"|Roman Catholic [%]
! style="width:120pt;"|Muslim [%]
! style="width:120pt;"|None/other [%]<ref>Includes [[Protestants]] outside the {{lang|de|EKD}}.</ref><ref name="Pollack Rosta West 2017 p. 76">{{Cite book |last=Pollack |first=D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfU-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |title=Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison |last2=Rosta |first2=G. |last3=West |first3=D. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-880166-5 |page=76 |access-date=30 July 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 1950
| style="text-align:right;"| 50.6
| style="text-align:right;"| 45.8
| style="text-align:right;"| –
| style="text-align:right;"| 3.6
|-
| 1961
| style="text-align:right;"| 51.1
| style="text-align:right;"| 45.5
| style="text-align:right;"| –
| style="text-align:right;"| 3.5
|-
| 1970
| style="text-align:right;"| 49.0
| style="text-align:right;"| 44.6
| style="text-align:right;"| 1.3
| style="text-align:right;"| 3.9
|-
| 1975
| style="text-align:right;"| 44.1
| style="text-align:right;"| 43.8
| style="text-align:right;"| –
| style="text-align:right;"| –
|-
| 1980
| style="text-align:right;"| 42.3
| style="text-align:right;"| 43.3
| style="text-align:right;"| –
| style="text-align:right;"| –
|-
| 1987
| style="text-align:right;"| 41.6
| style="text-align:right;"| 42.9
| style="text-align:right;"| 2.7
| style="text-align:right;"| 11.4
|}