European population is not as mobile as American. While Americans are used to upping sticks and heading for new and greener pastures, in Europe lack of common language as well as cultural emotional attachment to home are significant factors stopping people from migration.
But the situation has changed. German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) revealed the new trends with the most detail population map ever made in Europe. BBSR collected a data between 2001-2011 from municipalities all around Europe. The effect is amazing choropleth map map of unprecedented level of detail.
Although it’s incredibly detailed, the map is relatively easy to analyse. The different colours represent average annual population change for each municipality over the ten years studied. Blue means the population shrank, red means the population grew. Areas in beige have experienced no significant change. The darker shade of blue and red the more significant changes occurred. The different sizes of each coloured shape, meanwhile, show the radically different sizes of municipal units across the continent. Large areas in the Baltic States, Turkey or Scandinavia, and far smaller in Ireland, Greece, and the Czech.
Conclusions are quite obvious. Despite economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe, the continent is still migrating to the Northwest. We can see a lot of dark blue colour in Balkans or in Latvia with a significant increase in France or Ireland. Another visible trend is urbanisation. It is well visible in Poland where every larger agglomeration grew in favour of decreasing population of rural area. It is also visible on a large scale in east Germany and the north of Spain where Berlin and Madrit absorbed Citizens of small cities and villages in the range of 200 km.
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But the situation has changed. German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) revealed the new trends with the most detail population map ever made in Europe. BBSR collected a data between 2001-2011 from municipalities all around Europe. The effect is amazing choropleth map map of unprecedented level of detail.
Although it’s incredibly detailed, the map is relatively easy to analyse. The different colours represent average annual population change for each municipality over the ten years studied. Blue means the population shrank, red means the population grew. Areas in beige have experienced no significant change. The darker shade of blue and red the more significant changes occurred. The different sizes of each coloured shape, meanwhile, show the radically different sizes of municipal units across the continent. Large areas in the Baltic States, Turkey or Scandinavia, and far smaller in Ireland, Greece, and the Czech.
Conclusions are quite obvious. Despite economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe, the continent is still migrating to the Northwest. We can see a lot of dark blue colour in Balkans or in Latvia with a significant increase in France or Ireland. Another visible trend is urbanisation. It is well visible in Poland where every larger agglomeration grew in favour of decreasing population of rural area. It is also visible on a large scale in east Germany and the north of Spain where Berlin and Madrit absorbed Citizens of small cities and villages in the range of 200 km.
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