Bevölkerung / Bevölkerungsentwicklung

§ Section 7 (1) of the Land Development Principles Act (Landesentwicklungsgrundsätzegesetz).

The highest state authorities and the Northern Statistics Office provide information on population/population trends.

Insights into the population structure and future population trends are an important planning basis for the state (federal, state and local), but also for the private sector.

The serious demographic changes of the coming decades will have a noticeable impact on all areas of life. They require early action and needs-based planning.

It is the task of the federal state to set the right course for this in its own areas of responsibility and to support local authorities and other public and private planning bodies in this through legal requirements, but also by providing information and advice as well as programs and projects.

The state provides information on population trends free of charge.

Detailed population data from Statistics North may incur costs depending on the type and scope of the data.

The topic of "population development" plays a role in various areas of state policy (e.g. schools, hospitals, skilled workers) and is taken into account in the respective ministries when planning tasks and setting priorities.

• To the state ministries of Schleswig-Holstein when it comes to population-related specialist planning at state level,
• the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein, Department 3 - State Planning Division, for general information on population trends in Schleswig-Holstein,
• the Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistikamt Nord) for population data for Schleswig-Holstein.