Editing Nièvre (section)

==Demographics==
Nièvre is a rural department with about 31 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=pop2016/> Only one city (Nevers) has more than 10,000 inhabitants.<ref name="pop2019"/> It indicates the characteristic of the department, which is predominantly rural. The department is slowly losing its population since the 1970s, at the rate of 900 people a year.<ref name=pop2016/> Abandoned houses can be seen in villages and the price of peripheral real estate is one of the lowest in France.

Population development since 1801:{{historical populations|cols=2|align=none|percentages=pagr|footnote=Sources:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://splaf.free.fr/58his.html|title=Historique de la Nièvre|website=Le SPLAF}}</ref><ref name=pop2016>{{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4176909?geo=DEP-58|title=Évolution et structure de la population en 2016|publisher=INSEE}}</ref>|graph-pos=bottom
|13=1801|14=232,590|15=1806|16=241,739|17=1821|18=257,990|19=1831|20=282,521|21=1841|22=305,346|23=1851|24=327,161|25=1861|26=332,814|27=1872|28=339,917|29=1881|30=347,576|31=1891|32=343,576|33=1901|34=323,783|35=1911|36=299,312|37=1921|38=270,148|39=1931|40=255,195|41=1936|42=249,673|43=1946|44=248,559|45=1954|46=240,078|47=1962|48=245,921|49=1968|50=247,702|51=1975|52=245,212|53=1982|54=239,635|55=1990|56=233,278|57=1999|58=225,198|59=2006|60=222,218|61=2011|62=218,341|63=2016|64=209,161}}

===Principal towns===
The most populous commune is [[Nevers]], the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 6 communes with more than 4,000 inhabitants:<ref name=pop2019/>

{| class=wikitable
! Commune
! Population (2019)
|-
| [[Nevers]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 33,005
|-
| [[Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 9,589
|-
| [[Varennes-Vauzelles]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 9,201
|-
| [[Decize]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 5,233
|-
| [[La Charité-sur-Loire]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4,742
|-
| [[Fourchambault]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4,125
|}