Bydgoszcz
Population

Bydgoszcz

Section Title: Population
Table Section Text: None

Year	Number of inhabitants	Remarks

1346-1771	3,500 to 5,000	mostly Polish wheat merchants and bargees

1771	approx. 1,000	including roughly 80% Catholics. The number of inhabitants declined as a result of the Great Northern War and plagues brought by the fighting armies (1700–1721)

1772	approx. 600

1780	2,046	without military persons

1783	2,562	in 337 households, without military persons, including 27 Jews (three families)

1788	3,077	without military persons

1792	3,915	without military persons

1816	6,100	including 41% Catholics

1831	approx. 8,000

1852	12,900	mostly Germans, including 26% Catholics

1875	31,308

1880	34,044

1885	36,294

1890	41,399	including 28,411 Protestants, 11,165 Catholics, 1,451 Jews and 372 other persons

1900	52,204	including 34,415 Protestants, 15,663 Catholics and 1,519 Jews

1910	57,696	including 37,008 Protestants, 18,539 Catholics and 2,149 other persons including Jews

1921	88,000	including 64.000 Catholics and 22,500 Protestants (24,000 Germans)

1939	141,000

1946	134,614

1975	322,657

1998	386,855

2012	368,286

2014	358,614

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