Wealthy Bavaria gets €227 mln state payback
Germany's wealthiest state Bavaria is gaining millions in a federal funding after census results showed more people lived down south than previously thought, the business daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Wednesday.
Census shows 700,000 German flats lack loos
Residents of around 700,000 German flats make do without basic sanitation and lack either a loo or a bathroom - according to data from the first census since reunification.
Census shrinks German population by 1.5 million
Germany has revised down its population by 1.5 million to 80.2 million in the first census since before the country's 1990 reunification, the federal statistics office said on Friday.
Group tries to count American expats abroad
An organization is hoping to boost the political clout of Americans living in Germany and elsewhere overseas by using technology to count them this summer. <b>Moises Mendoza</b> reports.
Fake census forms probe drug consumption and penis size
Forms masquerading as Germany's 2011 census but instead asking questions about drug consumption and penis size have been arriving in post boxes around the country.
Germany begins first census in decades
Germany on Monday began its first official census since the country reunified in 1990, with privacy advocates complaining the questions are excessively intrusive.
NPD banned from taking Frankfurt census
Members of the National Democratic Party (NPD) have been banned from taking the census in the state of Hesse, following the far-right party's call on its members to volunteer and collect data.