Without immigration the population in Germany would decrease. But as a result of a high migration in recent years, the population has increased to 84.4 million people.
Never before has Germany had so many inhabitants. The population in 2022 has increased by 1.3%, a significant increase, the Federal Statistical Office in Germany has announced. According to her, at the end of 2022, 84.4 million people lived in Germany.
According to the population growth data, it is clearly related to the increase in migration. In 2022, about 1.5 million people came to Germany, four times more than in 2021. A large part are citizens from Ukraine.
Over 12 million citizens of foreign origin in Germany
In total, at the end of 2022, about 72 million Germans and 12.3 million citizens of foreign origin lived in this country. With 1.34 million people, citizens of Turkish origin make up the largest group of German citizens of foreign origin. After them are the Ukrainians, 1.05 million people, and the Syrians, 883,000 people. Due to the war in Ukraine, the number of Ukrainians living in Germany has increased sixfold.
Even the number of foreigners in the general population has increased from 13.1% to 14.6%. The number of citizens with foreign citizenship has increased at a time when the number of Germans has decreased. Another development: In 2022, more people died in Germany than were born. Overall, there were 327,000 more deaths than births. In 2021, this figure was 228,000./ DW