History of Bratislava - Demographic Evolution

Demographic Evolution

The ethnic makeup of the town's population during the last 2 centuries has been as follows:

• 1850

Germans (75%), Slovaks (18%), Hungarians (7.5%) – Note: all population data before 1869 are not exact -

• 1880

Germans (68%), Slovaks (8%), Hungarians (8%)

• 1910

Germans (41.92%), Slovaks (14.92%), Hungarians (40.53%), of total population of 78,223 Note: the period after 1848 was a period of strong magyarisation in the Kingdom of Hungary; immigration of Hungarians and magyarisation in Bratislava. Also note that in the same time, the municipal area around the city had a population composed of 63.29% Slovaks, 17.39% Germans, and 13.59% Hungarians, of 36,190 inhabitants total The whole county to which the city belonged had a population of 389,750, including 166,017 Slovaks, 163,367 Hungarians, and 53,822 Germans.

• 1919 (August)

Germans (36%), Slovaks (33%), Hungarians (29%), other (1.7%)

• 1930

Slovaks (33%), Germans (25%), Czechs (23%), Hungarians (16%), Jews (3.83%) Note: emigration of Hungarians and opportunist registering as Czechs or Slovaks; immigration of Czech civil servants and teachers; the Germans remained the biggest group in the part of the city known as Old Town; religious Jews made up 12%, so that most national Jews might have registered themselves as Slovaks or Germans

• 1940

Slovaks (49%), Germans (20%), Hungarians (9.53%), Jews (8.78%)

• 1961

Slovaks (95.15%), Czechs (4.61%), Hungarians (3.44%), Germans (0.52%), Jews (0%) Note: Germans were evacuated when the Red Army was approaching the town in 1945, Jews were eliminated during World War II or they moved thereafter

• 1970

Slovaks (92%), Czechs (4.6%), Hungarians (3.4%), Germans (0.5%)

• 1991

Slovaks (93.39%), Czechs (2.47%), Hungarians (4.6%), Germans (0.29%)

• 2001

Slovaks (91.39%), Czechs and Moravians (2%), Hungarians (3.84%), Germans (0.28%)