Editing Saarland (section)

==Demographics==
{{historical populations|3=1926|4=769300|5=1930|6=794500|7=1935|8=814576|9=1940|10=812753|11=1945|12=745612|13=1950|14=948716|15=1955|16=996238|17=1960|18=1060493|19=1965|20=1127354|21=1970|22=1121300|23=1975|24=1096333|25=1980|26=1066299|27=1985|28=1045936|29=1990|30=1072963|31=1995|32=1084370|33=2000|34=1066470|35=2011|36=999623|37=2022|38=1006864|percentages=pagr|footnote=Source:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.saarland.de/dokumente/thema_statistik/Fortgeschriebener_Bevoelkerungsstand_ab_1926.pdf|title=Fortgeschriebener Bevölkerungsstand*) am Jahresende 1926 bis 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://citypopulation.de/en/germany/cities/|title=Germany: States and Major Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information|website=citypopulation.de}}</ref>}}
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|+Significant foreign resident populations<ref>[https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Thematisch/Bevoelkerung/MigrationIntegration/AuslaendBevoelkerung.html ''Zensus 2014: Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2014''] 31 December 2014 German Statistical Office.</ref>
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! Nationality || Population (31 December 2022) 	
|-	
| {{flag|Syria}} || 30,470	
|-	
| {{flag|Italy}} || 18,620	
|-	
| {{flag|Ukraine}} || 16,810	
|-
| {{flag|Turkey}} || 12,260	
|-	
| {{flag|France}} || 11,305	
|-	
| {{flag|Romania}} || 9,510	
|-	
| {{flag|Poland}} || 6,095	
|-	
| {{flag|Bulgaria}} || 5,180
|-	
| {{flag|Luxembourg}} || 4,870
|-	
| {{flag|Kosovo}} || 2,910	
|}

===Largest cities===
{{See also|List of cities in Saarland by population}}
The following table shows the ten largest cities of Saarland:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/germany-saarland.php |title=Saarland (Germany): Counties, Cities and Communes - Population Statistics, Charts and Map |website=www.citypopulation.de |access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!align="center" bgcolor="#bbffbb"|Pos. 
!align="center" bgcolor="#bbffbb"|Name 
!align="center" bgcolor="#bbffbb"|Pop. 2017
!align="center" bgcolor="#bbffbb"|Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
!align="center" bgcolor="#bbffbb"|Pop. per km<sup>2</sup>
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 1 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Saarbrücken]]|| 180,966 || 168 || 1,080
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 2 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Neunkirchen, Saarland|Neunkirchen]]|| 46,767 || 75 || 621
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 3 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Homburg (Saar)]]|| 41,934 || 83 || 508
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 4 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Völklingen]]|| 39,376 || 67 || 587
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 5 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Sankt Ingbert]]|| 35,951 || 50 || 720
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 6 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Saarlouis]]|| 34,532 || 43 || 798
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 7 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Merzig]]|| 29,818 || 109 || 274
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 8 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Sankt Wendel]]|| 25,959 || 114 || 229
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 9 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Blieskastel]]|| 20,770 || 108 || 192
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;"| 10 || style="text-align:left;"|[[Dillingen, Saarland|Dillingen]]|| 20,143 || 22 || 914
|}

===Vital statistics===
*Births from January–June 2016 = {{increase}} 3,880<ref>{{cite web |title=Bevölkerung |url=https://www.statistikportal.de/de/bevoelkerung |website=Statistische Ämter des Bundes Und der Länder |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref>
*Births from January–June 2017 = {{increase}} 4,023
*Deaths from January–June 2016 = {{decreasepositive}} 6,434
*Deaths from January–June 2017 = {{increasenegative}} 6,942
*Natural growth from January–June 2016 = {{increase}} -2,554
*Natural growth from January–June 2017 = {{decrease}} -2,919

===Religion===
Saarland is the most religious state in Germany. The adherents of the [[Catholic Church in Germany|Catholic Church]] comprise 56.8% of the population, organised in the two dioceses of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier|Trier]] (comprising the formerly Prussian part of Saarland) and [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer|Speyer]] (for the smaller eastern formerly Palatine part). 17.5% of the Saarlandic population adhere to the [[Protestant Church in Germany]] (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD), organised in the two [[Landeskirche]]n named [[Evangelical Church in the Rhineland]] and [[Evangelical Church of the Palatinate]], both following the same former territorial partition. 25.7% are not affiliated with one of these churches.<ref name="ekd2018" />

Saarland has the highest concentration of [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]s of any German state, and is the only state in which Catholics form an absolute majority (over 50%).

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|title=Religion in Saarland – 31 December 2018<ref name="ekd2018">[https://www.ekd.de/ekd_de/ds_doc/Ber_Kirchenmitglieder_2018.pdf Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland – Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31. Dezember 2018] EKD, January 2020</ref>
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{{bar percent|[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholics]]|DarkOrchid|56.8}}
{{bar percent|[[Protestant Church in Germany|EKD Protestants]]|DodgerBlue|17.5}}
{{bar percent|Other or [[Irreligion|none]]|DarkSlateGray|25.7}}
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