Editing Bas-Rhin (section)

==Demography==
The demography of Bas-Rhin is characterized by high density and high population growth since the 1950s.

In January 2014 Bas-Rhin officially had 1,112,815 inhabitants and was [[List of French departments by population|18th by population]] at the national level. In fifteen years, from 1999 to 2014, its population grew by more than 86,000 people, or about 5,800 people per year. But this variation is differentiated among the 517 communes that make up the department.

The population density of Bas-Rhin is 234 inhabitants per square kilometre in 2014 which is more than twice the average in France, which was 112 in 2009.

===Changing demographics in Bas-Rhin===
The first census was conducted in 1801 and this count, renewed every five years from 1821, provides precise information on the evolution of population in the department.

With 540,213 inhabitants in 1831, the department represented 1.66% of the total French population, which was then 32,569,000 inhabitants. From 1831 to 1866, the department gained 48,757 people, an increase of 0.26% on average per year compared to the national average of 0.48% over the same period.

Demographic change between the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870 and the [[First World War]] was higher than the national average. Over this period, the population increased by 100,532 inhabitants, an increase of 16.74%, compared to 10% nationally. The population increased by 9.23% between the two world wars from 1921 to 1936 compared to a national growth of 6.9%.

Like other French departments, Bas-Rhin experienced a population boom after the [[Second World War]], higher than the national level. The rate of population growth between 1946 and 2007 was 83.83%, compared to 57% nationally.

{{Historical populations
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| source = SPLAF<ref name=splaf>[http://splaf.free.fr/67his.html Historique du Bas-Rhin], SPLAF</ref> and INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=DEP-67 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
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|1801 |450238
|1806 |500926
|1831 |540213
|1836 |561859
|1841 |560113
|1851 |587434
|1856 |563855
|1861 |577574
|1866 |588970
|1872 |600406
|1876 |598180
|1881 |612015
|1886 |612077
|1891 |621505
|1896 |638624
|1901 |659432
|1906 |686695
|1911 |700938
|1921 |651686
|1926 |670985
|1931 |688242
|1936 |711830
|1946 |673281
|1954 |707934
|1962 |770150
|1968 |827367
|1975 |882121
|1982 |915676
|1990 |953053
|1999 |1026120
|2007 |1084840
|2012 |1104667
|2017 |1125559
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