Canton of Jura - Historic Population

Historic Population

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Historic Population Data
Year Total Population French Speaking German Speaking Protestant Catholic Other Jewish Islamic No religion given Swiss Non-Swiss
1850 44,921 1,010 43,810 101 42,217 2,704
1880 52,116 46,257 5,898 3,708 48,095 14 235 47,873 4,503
1900 57,575 49,098 7,272 7,063 50,289 15 195 51,784 5,791
1950 59,554 50,517 8,105 10,453 48,578 49 82 56,804 2,750
1970 67,325 55,285 5,723 10,284 56,476 1,787 62 59,000 8,325
2000 68,224 61,376 3,001 8,513 51,092 2,610 22 1,310 4,250 59,500 8,724

Read more about this topic:  Canton Of Jura

Famous quotes containing the words historic and/or population:

    The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)