ChartableThis is Simon, a software engineer at Datawrapper. This week, I will show you how a statistical glitch in the German census changed how I think about data.
Around the year 2003, Germany started to shrink. When we look at the official statistics for this period, we see that the population slowly declined for several years. Then, in 2011, something strange happened: The population suddenly dropped by almost 1.5 million.
