Editing Gomel (section)

== Population ==
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In 2013, the city's population numbered 515,325,<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/indicators/regions_current_data/vol_1/11.pdf |title=Belstat.gov.by |access-date=2014-01-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403195647/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/indicators/regions_current_data/vol_1/11.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2014}}</ref> indicating a positive population growth and hence a reversal of the demographic crisis that began in 1993.

{{historical populations|cols=2|align=none
| 1775 | 5,000
| 1858 | 13,700
| 1880 | 23,600
| 1897 |36775| 1913 | 104,500
| 1925 | 81,900
| 1931 | 109,900
| 1939 |139120| 1943 |15000| 1959 | 168,270
|1970|272253|1979|382785|1989|500846|1999|475500|2009|482652|2019|510459|2023|501802|2024|501102|2025|501193|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/publications/izdania/public_bulletin/index_67469/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417144107/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/publications/izdania/public_bulletin/index_67469/|archive-date=17 April 2023|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cities & Towns of Belarus|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/belarus-cities.htm|date=2024-04-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|archive-date=2 April 2024|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="pop"/>}}

=== Jewish community ===
[[File:HolocaustGomel.jpg|thumb|Mass grave of Holocaust victims]]
After the annexation of Gomel by the [[Russian Empire]] and the creation of the [[Pale of Settlement]], Gomel gradually became a centre of resettlement for the Jewish population of Russia. According to the 1897 census, 55% of the population of Gomel were [[Jews]]. In 1903, there was a violent [[pogrom]] against the Jewish population of the city.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501674.2021.1952023|doi = 10.1080/13501674.2021.1952023|title = Science against Injustice: A Literary Investigation of Vladimir Bogoraz's Silhouettes from Gomel'|year = 2021|last1 = Berkovich|first1 = Nadja|journal = East European Jewish Affairs|volume = 51|pages = 1–17|s2cid = 238861156|url-access = subscription}}</ref> From that moment on, a gradual decrease of the number of Jews in the city began.  40,880 Jews lived in Gomel in 1939, when they comprised 29.4% of the total population. Most Jews had left the city in anticipation of German occupation, but still between 3,000 and 4,000 Gomel Jews fell victim to the [[Holocaust]].<ref name="YV">{{cite web |url=http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=323 |publisher=Yad Vashem |title=The murder sites of the Jews in the occupied territories of the former USSR: Gomel |date=2017 |access-date=2017-01-07 |archive-date=8 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108094358/http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=323 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s saw [[History of the Jews in Belarus#Late 20th century to modern days|mass emigration]] of Jews from Gomel, but at the same time restoration of Jewish institutions in the city by the remaining Jewish inhabitants.<ref name="JW">{{cite web|url=http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/homyel/gomel_history.html |publisher=Paul Zoglin |title=Gomel history |date=2009-12-16 |access-date=2017-01-07}}</ref>