In 2023, around 1.93 million people immigrated to Germany. Numbers fluctuated during the time period covered in the graph at hand, peaking in 2015 during the high point of Europe’s refugee crisis. Significantly lower figures in 2020 may be attributed to the first year of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and subsequent restrictions implemented by the German government on entering the country, in order to control the spread of the disease. Immigration to Germany “Immigrant” is a term used from the point of view of the receiving country, or the country being migrated to by a person. While reasons for and circumstances leading to an immigrant entering a foreign country may vary, they often include love, include seeking residence, employment, family reunions, or applying for asylum. Various countries are represented among foreigners living in Germany, though currently the leading three by numbers are Turkey, Ukraine, and Syria. Around 5.2 million immigrants living in Germany do not need a residence permit due to having EU citizenship, and therefore being allowed freedom of movement based on EU law. Another 2.64 million immigrants were granted an unlimited permit to stay in Germany. The near future Germany remains a popular choice for immigrants, even in currently challenging economic and political times. Welfare benefits, healthcare, and various support initiatives for those moving to or arriving in the country are on the list of selling points, though in practice, difficulties may be encountered depending on individual situations and laws in different German federal states. While the unemployment rate among foreigners living in Germany had gone up in 2020, it dropped again in the following years, but increased once more in 2023 and 2024 to over 16 percent. The country is Europe’s largest economy, housing many global players in various industries, which continues to attract jobseekers, despite these very industries facing struggles of their own brought on both by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and geopolitical events in Europe.

Germany DE: International Migrant Stock: % of Population data was reported at 14.879 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 14.429 % for 2010. Germany DE: International Migrant Stock: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 11.828 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2015, with 6 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.879 % in 2015 and a record low of 7.518 % in 1990. Germany DE: International Migrant Stock: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.;United Nations Population Division, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: 2008 Revision.;Weighted average;

Germany DE: Net Migration data was reported at 36,954.000 Person in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 609,553.000 Person for 2023. Germany DE: Net Migration data is updated yearly, averaging 212,822.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,175,283.000 Person in 2015 and a record low of -754,469.000 Person in 1998. Germany DE: Net Migration data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Net migration is the net total of migrants during the period, that is, the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants, including both citizens and noncitizens.;United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.;Sum;

Germany Immigration: Asia data was reported at 376,968.000 Person in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 331,110.000 Person for 2022. Germany Immigration: Asia data is updated yearly, averaging 99,635.000 Person from Dec 1964 (Median) to 2023, with 60 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 687,848.000 Person in 2015 and a record low of 12,779.000 Person in 1968. Germany Immigration: Asia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistisches Bundesamt. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.G005: Migration.

This dataset is about book series. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is German immigrants, race, and citizenship in the civil war era. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

Recently, the homeownership rate of immigrants in Germany has increased by more than 20 percentage points. To shed light on this sharp rise, this paper investigates the driving forces of the trend in the homeownership rate of immigrant households in Germany between 1996 to 2005 and 2001 to 2011 using a probit-based non-linear decomposition method. Empirical findings suggest that 50 percent of the change in immigrants' homeownership rate within the first time period can be explained by characteristics such as age and educational attainment. In the second time period, the explanatory power of characteristics is almost zero, indicating that it is rather the favorable economic and institutional environment as well as changes in immigrants' tenure choice process that contributed to the substantial increase in immigrants' homeownership rate in Germany. We additionally find that housing quality of immigrant homeowners has slightly improved as well, but that there is still a substantial nativity gap in housing quality among tenants as well as among owners.

Abstract

This dataset, a product of the Trade Team - Development Research Group, is part of a larger effort in the group to measure the extent of the brain drain as part of the International Migration and Development Program. It measures international skilled migration for the years 1975-2000.

The methodology is explained in: "Tendance de long terme des migrations internationals. Analyse à partir des 6 principaux pays recerveurs", Cécily Defoort.

This data set uses the same methodology as used in the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. The authors use data from 6 key receiving countries in the OECD: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US.

It is estimated that the data represent approximately 77 percent of the world’s migrant population.

Bilateral brain drain rates are estimated based observations for every five years, during the period 1975-2000.

Geographic coverage

Australia, Canada, France, Germany, UK and US

Kind of data

Aggregate data [agg]

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

We empirically examine the relationship between immigration and votes for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the 2017 German parliamentary election. We conduct a cross-sectional analysis, exploiting election results and socio-demographic as well as geographic features of the 401 German administrative districts. We find that immigration has a negative effect on AfD voting. A 1 percentage point increase in the share of foreigners is associated with a decrease in the AfD vote share of up to 0.37 percentage points. The result is robust to several estimation variations, such as addressing the potentially endogenous distribution of foreigners with an instrumental variable analysis.

Romania Number of Immigrants: by Country of Origin: Germany data was reported at 682.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 596.000 Person for 2016. Romania Number of Immigrants: by Country of Origin: Germany data is updated yearly, averaging 343.500 Person from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2017, with 24 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 739.000 Person in 1995 and a record low of 207.000 Person in 2001. Romania Number of Immigrants: by Country of Origin: Germany data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Romania – Table RO.G004: Number of Immigrants and Emigrants.

This statistic shows the proportion of Germans with an immigrant background who are of legal age and who are eligible to vote for the Bundestag and Landtag in North Rhine-Westphalia in comparison with Germany by gender.

Iceland Number of Immigrants: Germany data was reported at 407.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 361.000 Person for 2016. Iceland Number of Immigrants: Germany data is updated yearly, averaging 193.500 Person from Dec 1986 (Median) to 2017, with 32 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 415.000 Person in 2005 and a record low of 55.000 Person in 1986. Iceland Number of Immigrants: Germany data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Iceland . The data is categorized under Global Database’s Iceland – Table IS.G006: Number of Immigrants.

Difference in immigration and emigration (registrations and deregistrations) of German residents as a percentage of residents in 2009 at the level of the planning area Monitoring Social Urban Development 2010)

The diversification of Western European electorates due to immigration raises the question whether politicians discriminate against constituents with an immigrant background. While ethnic distance can explain lower responsiveness to outgroup constituents, shared partisanship might mitigate discrimination. We examine this issue through an audit experiment with 1,522 MPs in fifteen German state legislatures. We find that politicians are eleven percentage points less likely to respond to a constituent’s email asking for a personal meeting if the sender has an immigrant background (RI p-value < .001). Surprisingly, there is no difference in rates of discrimination between leftist and rightist parties. We also find evidence that signalling partisanship can mitigate the immigrant-background effect. Our findings imply that on the dimension of responsiveness, politicians – on the right and the left – might hamper rather than foster the political integration of immigrants.

Luxembourg Number of Immigrants: Male: Germany data was reported at 512.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 500.000 Person for 2016. Luxembourg Number of Immigrants: Male: Germany data is updated yearly, averaging 402.500 Person from Dec 1956 (Median) to 2017, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,664.000 Person in 1957 and a record low of 193.000 Person in 1974. Luxembourg Number of Immigrants: Male: Germany data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by The Portal of Statistics of Luxembourg. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Luxembourg – Table LU.G003: Number of Immigrants and Emigrants: by Sex.

Netherlands Number of Immigrants: Germany data was reported at 10,335.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 9,495.000 Person for 2016. Netherlands Number of Immigrants: Germany data is updated yearly, averaging 6,046.000 Person from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2017, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10,335.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 4,719.000 Person in 2003. Netherlands Number of Immigrants: Germany data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.G005: Number of Immigrants: by Country.

Kazakhstan Number of Immigrants: Germans data was reported at 53.000 Person in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 33.000 Person for Mar 2018. Kazakhstan Number of Immigrants: Germans data is updated quarterly, averaging 118.500 Person from Mar 2001 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 70 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 348.000 Person in Sep 2002 and a record low of 33.000 Person in Mar 2018. Kazakhstan Number of Immigrants: Germans data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by The Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Kazakhstan – Table KZ.G008: Number of Immigrants and Emigrants: by Ethnicity.

Luxembourg Number of Emigrants: Male: Germany data was reported at 392.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 388.000 Person for 2016. Luxembourg Number of Emigrants: Male: Germany data is updated yearly, averaging 290.500 Person from Dec 1956 (Median) to 2017, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,065.000 Person in 1959 and a record low of 181.000 Person in 1979. Luxembourg Number of Emigrants: Male: Germany data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by The Portal of Statistics of Luxembourg. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Luxembourg – Table LU.G003: Number of Immigrants and Emigrants: by Sex.