Germany has found that it has 1.5 million fewer people than was generally assumed, following the first census since reunification in 1990.
The new data revealed a population of 80.2 million, the federal statistics office Destatis said.
The census in the EU's most populous country was carried out on 9 May, 2011.
Until now, the census figures dated back to a West German one conducted in 1987, and a 1981 one in the former communist East Germany.
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