16.12.2024 - The Office of Statistics is adjusting the definition of the permanent and non-permanent population for the 2024 reporting year. To make the effects of the adjustment clear, a comparison between the figures according to the old and new definition is published for the population as at December 31, 2023. The official population figures from the Office of Statistics for 2023 are those according to the old definition.
This publication explains the changes to the definition and shows the effects in detail. The total population, i.e. the sum of the permanent and non-permanent population, remains unchanged at 40,992 people as at December 31, 2023. With the new definition, however, there is a shift of 442 people from the non-permanent to the permanent population. The number of persons in the permanent population of 40,015 according to the previously valid definition would therefore have been 1.1% higher if the new future definition had been applied.