This statistic shows the number of foreigners in Germany according to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals in 2023, by region of origin. That year, there were over 5.1 million nationals from EU states living in Germany. Foreigners are those who are not German based on Article 116 Paragraph 1 of the German constitution. These include stateless persons and those with unclear citizenship as well as the population group with a migration background. Individuals with a migration background can either have immigrated into Germany or been born in the country to at least one parent who was born a foreigner.
Number of foreigners in Germany in 2023, by region of origin
* EU states are the other 26 countries in the European Union, except Germany. ** The EU candidate countries are Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey (at the time of recording data). *** The countries of in the European Economic Area are Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.>br>Foreign population according to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals as of December 31, 2023. Based on the Central Register of Foreign Nationals, statistics on foreigners were rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5, due to demands for statistical privacy and personal data protection in population statistics publications.
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Statistisches Bundesamt. (May 2, 2024). Number of foreigners in Germany in 2023, by region of origin [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/891324/foreigner-numbers-by-region-of-origin-germany/
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