Prozentualer Bevölkerungswechsel nach deutschem Bezirk (2016–2024)

What’s that 24,2% blob and what’s the reason?

Edit: I read the disclaimer below, so it’s just changing their borders? That’s lame 🙁

Germany is currently experiencing trends, which occured in France during the first half of the 20th century. In France, the population was consolidating along major infrastructure corridors, while the Diagonale du Vide emerged. [[Map](https://www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/dc2ba03a-407a-4414-9916-64ba909682ef/rsrs_a_1090887_f0003_oc.jpg)]

This process is visible in the „Thüringer Städtekette“, which is where the largest cities in Thuringia are located.

France was the first country in the world to experience the demographic transition during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, which fostered the consolidation process showcased above as rural municipalities lost inhabitants. Thus making them even less attractice, which is why even more people left rural municipalities. It was a vicious circle, which accelerated each decade. During this time, the population growth rate was stabilized by immigration, e.g. by Italian immigrants in Côte d’Azur, which is one of the reasons why metropolitan areas and agglomerations grew faster than the country overall.