Until the late 18th century, the German term Bevölkerung (population) was used in the sense of “populating,” increasing the population. Krünitz’s Oeconomische Encyclopädie (1788) still used it as the opposite of Entvölkerung (depopulation)[1]. The term did not take on its modern meaning until the dawn of the 19th century. In the first volume of the Grimms’ Deutsches Wörterbuch (1854), the verb bevö…