Number of foreigners in Germany 2023, by region of origin

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 13, 2025

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

CharacteristicNumber of foreigners
EU states* 5,113,875
EU candidate countries** 3,738,790
European Economic Area***/ Switzerland 50,155
Rest of Europe 4,417,865
Asia 3,066,670
Africa 755,170
America 348,075
Australia and Oceania 17,670
Stateless 126,380
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Release date

May 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

December 31, 2023

Supplementary notes

* 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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