Population Distribution by Size of Locality: German Reich, Prussian Provinces, and Federal States (1871-1910)

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I. Percentage Distribution

Census Year	For every 100 members of the total population, the following percentages live in communities with … inhabitants
	fewer than 2,000	2,000 and more	and specifically in communities with … inhabitants
			2,000 to 4,999	5,000 to 19,999	20,000 to 99,999	100,000 and more
1871	63.9	36.1	12.4	11.2	7.7	4.8
1875	61.0	39.0	12.6	12.0	8.2	6.2
1880	58.6	41.4	12.7	12.6	8.9	7.2
1885	56.3	43.7	12.4	12.9	8.9	9.5
1890	53.0	47.0	12.0	13.1	9.8	12.1
1895	49.8	50.2	12.0	13.6	10.7	13.9
1900	45.6	54.4	12.1	13.5	12.6	16.2
1905	42.6	57.4	11.8	13.7	12.9	19.0
1910	40.0	60.0	11.2	14.1	13.4	21.3

Source: Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich 1934 [Statistical Almanac for the German Reich 1934], p. 11. According to the census of early December 1871, the total population was not, as indicated here, 41,010,000, but 41,059,000. The distributions – for 1871 only – also show minimal differences when compared with the figures provided in Bevölkerung und Wirtschaft [Population and Economy] (p. 94).

Original German data reprinted in Gerd Hohorst, Jürgen Kocka, and Gerhard A. Ritter, Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch II [Social History Workbook II], 2nd ed. Munich: Beck, 1978, p. 52.