Historical Demography
The chart shows the historical development of the population of Gorizia from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, according to official Austrian censuses. The figures show the population of the municipality of Gorizia in the boundiaries of the time. The criteria for the definition of the ethnical structure were changing over the years: in 1789, only the religious affiliation of the population was taken into account; in 1869 the ethnic affiliation was also recorded, with Jews counted as a separate category; in 1880 the category of ethnicity was replaced by the mother tongue, and from 1890 to 1910 only the "language of everyday communication" (German: Umgangsprache) was recorded. After 1869, the Jews were only recorded as a religious community, under the official category of "Israelites".
| Census | Ethnical structure | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Population | Italians | Slovenes | other Slavs | Germans | Jews |
| 1789 | 7.639 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 3,9% |
| 1850 | 10.581 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1857 | 13.297 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1869 | 16.659 | 66,6% | 21,0% | n.a. | 10,8% | 1,8% |
| 1880 | 19.113 | 70,7% | 17,8% | 0,3% | 11,2% | (1,4%) |
| 1890 | 20.019 | 74,2% | 17,8% | 0,5% | 7,5% | n.a. |
| 1900 | 23.765 | 67,8% | 20,0% | 0,5% | 11,6% | n.a. |
| 1910 | 30.995 | 47,8% | 34,8% | 1,3% | 10,4% | (0,9%) |
| 1921 | 39.829 | 60,8% | 37,1% | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1924 | 45.540 | 70,6% | 28,5% | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1936 | 52.065 | 68,1% | 30,0% | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
Read more about this topic: Gorizia
Famous quotes containing the word historical:
“Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.”
—Katherine Tait (b. 1923)