Historic Population
The historical population is given in the following chart:
| Historic Population Data | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Total Population | German Speaking | French Speaking | Protestant | Catholic | Other | Jewish | Christian Catholic | No religion given | Swiss | Non-Swiss |
| 1850 | 458,301 | 403,768 | 54,045 | 488 | |||||||
| 1860 | 413,887 | ||||||||||
| 1870 | 444,430 | ||||||||||
| 1880 | 471,991 | ||||||||||
| 1888 | 476,564 | ||||||||||
| 1900 | 589,433 | 483,388 | 97,789 | 506,699 | 80,489 | 970 | 1,543 | ||||
| 1910 | 578,381 | ||||||||||
| 1920 | 607,107 | ||||||||||
| 1930 | 623,665 | ||||||||||
| 1941 | 662,683 | ||||||||||
| 1950 | 801,943 | 665,702 | 120,566 | 671,817 | 122,971 | 3,189 | 1,403 | 3,256 | |||
| 1960 | 813,601 | ||||||||||
| 1970 | 901,706 | ||||||||||
| 1980 | 898,397 | ||||||||||
| 1990 | 958,192 | 802,740 | 74,338 | 691,812 | 172,906 | 53,880 | 802 | 1,263 | 41,350 | 860,655 | 97,537 |
| 2000 | 957,197 | ||||||||||
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