Editing Minden (section)

== Demography ==
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|+ '''Largest groups of foreign residents (2023)'''<ref>{{cite web | title = Minden wächst weiter |url = https://www.minden.de/aktuelles/pressemeldungen/minden-waechst-weiter-85-511-menschen-wohnen-in-der-weserstadt/|publisher=Stadt Minden|access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref>
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! Nationality !! Population !! Nationality !! Population
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|{{SYR}} || 2678 || {{AFG}} || 413
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|{{UKR}} || 1630 || {{RUS}} || 404
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|{{IRQ}} || 1471 || {{KOS}} || 346
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|{{POL}} ||  804 || {{POR}} || 333
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|{{TUR}} ||  569 || {{LIT}} || 316
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|{{ITA}} ||  475 || {{SRB}} || 300
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|{{ROM}} ||  433 || {{GRE}} || 299
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'''Population growth'''<ref>Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): "Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen, Band 50" Teil 1. "Bevölkerungsentwicklung", Essen 2003, p. 220–222  (1740–1930).</ref>
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! Year !! Population
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| 1740|| align="right" | 4,687
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| 1816 || align="right" | 6,574
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| 1840 || align="right" | 9,288
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| 1871 || align="right" | 16,543
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| 1900 || align="right" | 24,315
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| 1930 || align="right" | 28,245
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{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Population
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| 1945 || align="right" | 31,692
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| 1950 || align="right" | 41,527
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| 1961 || align="right" | 48,902
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| 1970 || align="right" | 48,860
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| 1973 || align="right" | 80,026
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| 1980 || align="right" | 77,718
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{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Population
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| 1989 || align="right" | 76,321
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| 1990 || align="right" | 78,145
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| 2000 || align="right" | 83,079
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| 2010 || align="right" | 82,114
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| 2020 || align="right" | 81,592
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<small>(The sudden increase of population number in 1973 results from the administrative adjointment of the surrounding villages to the Minden town area.)</small>

In the region [[Ostwestfalen-Lippe]], which is congruent to the [[Detmold (region)|administrative region of Detmold]], Minden takes the fourth place by population after Bielefeld, Paderborn, and [[Gütersloh]].

The earliest detailed information on population size dates to 1740. During Prussian governance, Minden as a regional capital and garrison showed a gentle population growth by officials and soldiers, and then, after defortification, by industrial workers from the surrounding region.

After World War II, Minden's population increased significantly due to migration of expelled persons and refugees, mainly from [[former eastern territories of Germany]]. Beginning in the 1960s, population growth was mainly due to [[guest workers]] from mediterranean countries, many of whom subsequently chose to settle permanently in Minden.

Migration to Germany of ethnic  [[Russia Germans|Germans]] from the [[Soviet Union]] and its succeeding countries began in the 1980s, and the district of Minden-Lübbecke was one of their preferred regions. Then in 1989–1990, [[German reunification]] enabled migration of people from eastern Germany. The most recent migration period is due mostly to [[Asylum seeker|asylum seeking]] refugees from the [[Near East]] and the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] in 2022.